Film Review
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
Taking the hawking cure
Are rental families a real thing?
Sheer murder? It must be Christmas
Just as Ana de Armas was the heart of the first Knives Out, Josh O’Connor is this one’s
The Spinal Tap reunion rocks
As with the original, at its heart this is a story about friendship
Brad Pitt has the formula for success
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Breaking the bro code
A new film provides an unusually sympathetic portrait of dislocated masculinity
Cruise control on a thrilling ride
Real stunts deliver an excitement that CGI can’t
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Reclaiming the rule of law
The rule of law was meant to protect liberty — not to be weaponised against democracy
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it