Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Cheap at the price
Political donations are the highest grossing investments you’ll ever make
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
