Films
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
It’s still a wonderful life
An uplifting Christmas classic never fails to move
The joy of war films
For decades, they have connected generations around culture, history and the love of a good story
The railway children’s later life
A new production of The Railway Children is a grand British day out
Trump’s film tariffs would be a total flop
The President’s idea for rejuvenating Hollywood is an absolute clunker
Can Mel Gibson rescue Hollywood from AI?
Tinseltown needs a concentrated dose of the human spirit
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
Let children’s stories be children’s stories
We need more respect for the childhood imagination
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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away