Carey Mulligan
What does the Carey Mulligan controversy tell us about film criticism today?
How one misinterpreted film review may have set a dangerous precedent
Hollywood whinge-fests undermine contemporary feminism
Hollywood is often a slimy, cynical business, but weaponizing feminism against a critic you don’t like is a new low
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
Justin Trudeau has been an embarrassing failure
He leaves Canada poorer, weaker and more divided
