Movie
How cinemas can save themselves
Watching films at the cinema should be a communal experience
Enjoyable destruction
Godzilla Minus One may not be especially profound but it is great fun
Films for free
The digital preservation of thousands of Polish feature films and documentaries is a gift to international film culture
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names