Ciné Lumière
Lockdown Cinema
Staying frosty in plague times
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
