Film Festival
A silent crook
The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
