Film Festival
A silent crook
The recent restoration of Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives shows that the original movie is astonishingly modern
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
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
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was