Handling Pooh with kid gloves
Christopher Robin reviewed
Life ‘n’ Arts podcast: celebrating American audacity with William Giraldi
William Giraldi, author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark ahead of publishing his first collection of essays,
Why should the death of Kofi Annan cause us to forget how bad at his job he was?
Failure falls upwards.
Enemies in a state: Dirty war with the press, or a clean fight?
Does more power lie with a president bound by checks and balances, or privately-owned media companies?
Only Aretha Franklin had the soul power to summon the spirit at will
The Queen of Soul is dead — there is no plausible heir.
Twitter and the twilight of the philosophers
We will not be able to trust the internet giants on what is fake or true so long as they lie to us about the nature of their business.
America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must
The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
Frenemies of the people: Why Trump and the press deserve each other
It’s getting harder and harder to choose between a president who can’t tell the truth, and a publisher who can’t admit it.
Ben Brantley isn’t transphobic – he’s pitiful
The New York Times critic has nothing to apologise for. Yet he has apologised.
A plot not so much paper-thin as soggy and smeary like used toilet paper
Mission Impossible: Fallout reviewed.
Film review: Netflix’s The Skin of the Wolf
Paws for thought
Two out of three ain’t bad: Jetlagged Trump’s European roadshow, reviewed
Is the likeliest explanation of Trump’s U-turn really that he’s a Russian agent?
Meet Michiko Kakutani, the conservative
The former New York Times reviewer’s study of truth reveals how she’s been driven to outrage by the erosion of cultural and critical values.
The masochistic perversity of the Special Relationship
London The American president is coming! All over Britain, people are putting up the bunting, cutting the crusts off the…
Jacob Rees-Mogg: What I’d do as UK Home Secretary
‘It’s mad to have an immigration system that doesn’t allow people in who you actually need, and does allow people in who you don’t need.’
Trump’s Mideast ‘deal of the century’ turns out to be a big fat nothing burger
When Donald Trump promised a ‘deal of the century’ between Israelis and Palestinians, he didn’t mention which century he had…
Freaky Friday for the sex wars: Netflix’s I Am Not an Easy Man reviewed
You know the feeling. One minute, you’re an oversexed adman, strolling the streets of Paris and propositioning every woman you…
Congratulations, America, on missing the World Cup
The opening round of the soccer World Cup is under way in Russia. If you’re lucky, you won’t have noticed.…
Michael Avenatti resembles the ‘manager’ who takes an inordinate slice of a working girl’s earnings
The crusading lawyer waves the sword of justice around in order to distract us from the sleaze behind his shield.
Film review: Westwood – Punk, Icon, Activist
This is a golden age for documentaries, if you have time to view them. Digital film and editing have reduced…
The club sandwich: three slices of white supremacy?
Is ‘the perfect American food’ soaked in imperialism and all-male white chumminess?
The Royals are Deplorables
Is Prince Harry a Trumpist, as his father-in-law insinuates?
Lionel Shriver and the rigging of the book market
Should the arts reflect the demographic make-up of their society, and be subject to quotas and affirmative action, in the…
Ocean’s Eight: the women star, but the ethnics still do the dirty work
Women get paid less in Hollywood. Surely the budget for the female variation on Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Thirteen could…
Junot Diaz is the right kind of sex pest for the left
Male writers of colour rejoiced this week when the editors of the Boston Review established new guidelines for what is and isn’t…
