George Lucas
Indiana Jones is back!
A fifth film is looming, but I really, really, wish it wasn’t
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The nihilism of newcomers
They are stripped of any of the authentic social systems that sustain us
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
