Film
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
Most Read
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Critical briefing: cuckooing
A hidden scourge has been plaguing British streets for too long
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect