London Film Festival
Horrors of war
Christopher Silvester on two extraordinary films from Eastern Europe shown at the London Film Festival
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Ireland has become an exporter of gender ideology
An architect of Irish trans policy has been elected Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
