Director
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
