David Lean
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Selling desirability
It is truthful to sell art as a luxury accessory
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
What is the CID for?
Zac Brettler’s short life and mysterious death
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The problem with scapegoating social media
Social media has become a convenient whipping boy for Britain’s political class
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation