Film
Wall St wolves
On money, morality and motive in three films
Coles to Newcastle
Showbiz vicars, lefty luvvies and a brush with death
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
The end of the world
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s best and most important film
What happened to horror films?
Watery idealism is robbing the genre of its fear
Love in Barbie Land
Barbie offers a healthy perspective on the relationship between the sexes
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
Defenestrating a feminist filmmaker (w/ Vaishnavi Sundar)
Trans debates have erupted in India as well
How Britain turned its back on its young
Soaring rents, punitive tax, and the cost of living crisis risks making the country into a version of the dystopian novel The Children of Men
Into thin Air
A pro-capitalist cinematic curiosity
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
The Road to the Cass Review — (2) Stephanie Davies-Arai
How doubts began to penetrate the walls of gender ideology
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
Rejecting Kant’s cant
Germany, cradle of the hate speech law
Spies and butterflies
We should prepare for new modern forms of espionage
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
Post election rundown
Three very sleepy men discuss the election result
Where the Tories must go from here
The Conservative Party must set aside backbiting in favour of building a radical political project that can appeal to young and old alike
Jane Austen versus virtue signalling
What Mansfield Park can tell us about contemporary politics
Against literary celebriphilia
We need interesting authors, not “big names”
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
