Film
David Copperfield and the politics of diversity
Diverse casting of period adaptations is a risk worth taking
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
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless