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
As easy as pie plant
How to pamper your rhubarb patch
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
The false euphoria of dysphoria
Pink News presents breast removal as “pure trans joy” in a new video
A Room with a Feud
What happened to robust — and, yes, rude — literary criticism?
Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)
A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music
Three act tragedy
The Wagatha Christie case reveals the addictive fun of gossip — but also its corrosive power
The renewal of Englishness
Journalist James Cowley builds a national identity from an excavation of incidents
A hidden horror
Rakib’s Britain: Domestic abuse is happening behind closed doors — and within closed cultures
G.K. Chesterton and the pandemic
The prince of paradox predicted the absurdities of Covid lockdowns
Why is TalkTV failing?
Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service