Keira Knightley
Joe Wright: Auteur of awfulness
His films are overrated, overindulged, and dismal
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Murders for July
Your summer holiday reading is sorted here
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning