Culture

Being a gay black man could be a career-saving move if Smollett plays the part for liberal white media

The less hate there is in the United States, the more hate crimes must be manufactured in order to keep the Fraternal Order of Victims afloat

Russian Doll reviewed

In eroticism, there is only a small step from the sublime to the ridiculous

Camila Cabello seemed to approve though

On the surface, Ted Bundy was good-looking, normal-behaving and could be disarmingly charming

‘But it was the Eighties!’

I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career in online social justice

The Hawaii congresswoman is an identity politics box-ticker, yet MSNBC has it in for her. Why?

Sport is supposed to be an escape from everyday life, but the Kaepernick-Trump stand-off has ruined all that

It’s not just Mary Poppins that needs to be brought into the 21st century, argues Godfrey Elfwick

Hang these in a museum

Another piece of elite idiocy in The New York Times

Cold War reviewed

Does a 22-year-old film point to the director’s alleged perversions?

The absence of directness in modern American journalism reflects the cowardice and complicity of the journalists

Fyre Fraud and Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened reviewed

What possible contribution could this generation make to film or literature?

How else could a drama as knowing and meta and arch do anything other than disappear up its own bottom?

Comics should stop trying to be activists, and commentators, and philosophers

Destroyer reviewed

May God have mercy on our souls