Scream
The rise of meta-horror
In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
