Lawrence of Arabia
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The problem with the SNP’s separatist sympathies
We should not simply “move on” from the horrors of IRA terrorism
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
Our AI overlords will end bigotry
Bring on the machines
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The intractable problems pulling modern Britain apart
When does upholding free speech become an act of self-sabotage?
An ode to the examination
The end of in-person examinations would be the end of rational assessment
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?