Cinema
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
The folly of fanservice
Wuthering Heights is a tellingly atrocious film
Day after day
It is easy to lose sight of art amid personal narratives
Supervisory moralism at the cinema
The films of Paul King manage thorny political problems through children’s fantasies
A nostalgic Scottish Christmas
Comfort and Joy is a feel-good film in dark times
The movies’ maestro
Hollywood’s most well-known tunesmith now has a doorstopper biography
Should young actors copy Richard Burton?
His remarkable and unpredictable talent would be hard to pull off today
The joy of war films
For decades, they have connected generations around culture, history and the love of a good story
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
Free speech is about principle, not political convenience
One might disagree with pro-Palestine radicals but that does not mean that they should be censored
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
Welsh Labour is doomed
New scandals will speed up its decline into irrelevance
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)