Documentary
These children did not matter
A fine film exposes grooming gangs and their enablement
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
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
9/11 confidential
This 9/11 documentary gained extraordinary access to the key decision makers, deploying the material with skill and confidence
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
Editors deserve more credit
Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation
A trauma that never ends
Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
