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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
