Film
Indiana Jones is back!
A fifth film is looming, but I really, really, wish it wasn’t
A life in focus
Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names
Nomadland takes the hat-trick
From digital streaming to diversity, Christopher Silvester rounds up the longest ever awards season
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Hopkins and Oldman: The very best of British actors
Following the recent Oscar nod for Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman, Alexander Larman looks at other parallels between the two thespians
Diversity at the BAFTAs
The BAFTA film awards have seen plenty of diversity in recent years, but have gone down in film history as the least diverse film awards ever. Why?
Wilde encounters
The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal
Gaslighting
The origins of the word
The blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
Soviet cinema reveals to the West that life in the USSR was not all grey, unsmiling misery; instead, the Soviets were just like us
Nollywood comes of age
Christopher Silvester explains how censorship has suppressed Nigerian films that have won international acclaim
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
