Paul Thomas Anderson
The film of the year?
One Battle After Another is a marker for the rest of the industry
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The Mexican baby business
In UK courts, parental orders for children born overseas outnumber those born to surrogates here
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
The welfare state of things
Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss discuss the numbers behind Britain’s welfare state
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
The problem of midwit misinformation
Iran, insurance and how smart people lose sight of the truth
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions