Film
Taking flight
Why planes make such a great setting for films
Soon to be pulped non-fiction
Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment
The benefits of learning from home
The British model of a residential “university experience” saddles students with unnecessary debt and severs their links with their communities
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
December/January: Letters to the Editor
Carry on, pomp and circumstance and cultural Marxism
Carry Ons: Phwoar! What a lovely set of hits
Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Films for free
The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
