Films
All mouth, no trousers?
Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off
Women directors screened out
Christopher Silvester on Mark Cousins’s latest documentary
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
Immigration is still the elephant in the room
Violence is appalling, yet we have to understand the conditions from which it emerged
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
A great Games
Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
