Robert Pattinson
Sci-fi satire Mickey 17 misses the mark
There is a good short film here, inside a long bad one
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Entebbe and the Israeli way of war
Fifty years after Israel’s most audacious hostage rescue, its legacy still shapes how the country understands security, citizenship and war
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,