Film
Cowboy quartet
A new screen Western is always welcome
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Let there be love
Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
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
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Let’s give parents back control
We need a more pluralistic childcare sector
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it