Film
Female strength on film
Is Sir Ridley Scott a surprising feminist?
Long-form television it is, then
The home of mid-budgeted literate films aimed at adults is no longer at the cinema
The Day of the Jackal: fifty years on
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most exciting, page-turning novels ever written
Out of Africa
To get a handle on African cinema, watch Mandabi
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at 30
Is this 1991 blockbuster an underrated masterpiece or kitsch nonsense?
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
Catholic tastes
Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions
The Thing: 40 years on
Left to freeze by Thatcher’s censors, The Thing has finally been recognised as John Carpenter’s best film
Star of the sty
Christopher Silvester on a documentary with a solely animalistic cast
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
