Film
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
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
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Light in the darkness
In conversation with Nigel Biggar about his career and the work of the Pharos Foundation
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
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
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
