Elizabeth Taylor
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
