British Film
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
Michael Powell: an auteur who loved to work with others
In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
The meaning of Zack Polanski
The icon of geriatric millennials is one of life’s drifters
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions