Cinema
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
