Directors
Who should run the RSC next?
Someone has to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
The men with the megaphone
A new history of movie directors is full of insight, felicitous phrases and subtle put-downs
Editors deserve more credit
Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation
What Britain needs next
Whoever replaces Boris Johnson has to make radical change
Justin Trudeau’s heartless hypocrisy
Has the Canadian premier’s shameful silence been bought with Tigray gold?
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
I spread disinformation, and I’m very sorry
In which our brave author is found guilty of trying to be funny online
The remarkable poise of Allison Bailey
Bailey has shown the strength of her character in the courtroom
The Weimar Republic
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Weimar Republic and whether its collapse blinds us to its achievements
This septic isle
Malta is not a trans utopia
A radical reframing of conservative tradition
Yoram Hazony’s purified conservatism risks losing touch with political reality
Don’t mock the Med mindset
What the Spanish have lost in international relevance, they make up in appreciating life
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion