Michael Powell
Michael Powell: an auteur who loved to work with others
In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb
We have forgotten the titans of British cinema
It has fallen to Scorsese to rescue the reputation of Powell and Pressburger
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
