Action Movies
All action, no abstraction
On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood
Boats and bombs
A Netflix winner, a Netflix disappointment and a classic American hero on Amazon Prime
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Revolution in the Academy
The quest for knowledge, not power, ought to guide academia
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
(DTB) Don’t Trust Boris
The former prime minister is up to his old tricks
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates