Film
They can’t really mean this
The Long Walk is a film for a Trumpian time of delight in random public cruelty
Breaking the bro code
A new film provides an unusually sympathetic portrait of dislocated masculinity
Boris Johnson, the Wrath of God
On the resurrection of the bloated Lazarus
Roy Orbison in Blue Velvet
A pop song can be transformed by use, or it can split the world open
Sci-fi satire Mickey 17 misses the mark
There is a good short film here, inside a long bad one
Serious silliness
Five decades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Save the Prince Charles cinema!
It’s shabby, but we should embrace that
Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Andy Burnham’s empty toolbox
Britain’s next Labour government will inherit a state too indebted to deliver the interventionism it dreams of
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
From the Desk of Lord Kronsteen
When a sketchwriter faces awkward questions, only a billionaire’s dictated letter of support will do
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument