Shane Meadows
Unlikely auteur of mercy
Dan Hitchens makes the case for film director Shane Meadows as a genius of Christian art
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The dangerous lure of Europe
We must disincentivise economic migration to European states
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
Fear Ireland’s shadow banks
The Emerald Isle is ripe for a volatile market correction
