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American Utopia
Facts are overlooked in American Utopia’s HBO concert film to accommodate the systemic white racism narrative
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware
Were lockdowns ethical?
Questionable benefits were emphasised above obvious and dramatic harms
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
Hellenism in Rome
Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history
