Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
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The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
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Why nobody likes a smarty pants
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Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
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The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
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Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
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The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender