sequels
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Drop your weapons
Knives Out deserves a reprieve from the dread of bad sequels
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
Land of fire and blood
The detours, if at times distracting, are worth the price of this historical journey
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
