Cinema
A load of Bolls
Citizen Vigilante is artless MAGA slop
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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity