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”
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
