Film Review
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
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
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How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Why Labour needs a rural reset
Andy Burnham must be more supportive of rural life than his predecessor
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Why Devon is saying no to a data centre
It would transform the local environment, and the local economy, for the worse
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another