Film Review
Red pill, blue pill
Is The Matrix best judged as cinema or cultural phenomenon?
Victim at sixty
How much has really changed in the film industry since the Dirk Bogarde film “came out”?
Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
Have hope, have kids
How parenthood can steel us against stress and despair
The follies of human quantitative easing
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
The name game
There’s a meeting of the world’s most important leaders, and Rishi has been invited along, too
Desperate policies for desperate people
That Conservative policy platform in full
The final test
Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match
The problem with politeness
The British aversion to seeming rude exposes us to ideological scolds
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Harriet Pester: Bookworld PR
Alas, not everything is plain sailing in the world of book-trade PR
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
