Cinema
Killer roles
The Dungeons & Dragons romp-com
Soon to be pulped non-fiction
Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
A silent crook
The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
World Budget Day
On World Book Day, Jeremy Hunt tried and failed to dress up as Nigel Lawson
The long and winding road
Join us on our journey down the roads of the 1800s
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
