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
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
It’s OK to be angry about socialism
It is perverse that this chronic failure of an ideology endures
Jeremy Clarkson touches grass
How a cocky petrolhead found his soul
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
The Road to the Cass Review — (3) Sue and Marcus Evans
What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre, and why
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
