film franchises
Acting his age
What happens to film franchises when action heroes age?
We have to wake up on defence
Britain cannot act as if war will never come
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
Slavery did not create Britain’s wealth
A bogus narrative is obscuring history and diminishing our national pride
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Playing the ball
The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity
