Joe Wright
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
