Movies
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
My war stories
The role of the war film in British cinema
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
Belfast boy
Christopher Silvester reviews two semi-autobiographical movies: Oscar-contender Belfast and arthouse The Souvenir
Cancelling Terry Gilliam (again)
Gilliam is now 80, and seems as cheerily intent on causing trouble and controversy as ever
Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester
His own best character
A new Netflix release has been trailed as a masterpiece, with myriad claims to Oscar recognition, says Christopher Silvester
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Idiot voters
Badenoch’s team aren’t idiots. Not like the voters
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
