Director
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
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”
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines