Film
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
Actors do love gongs
Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
