September 2021


Film August 23, 2021

Fatty Arbuckle’s fall

Arbuckle was an accidental pioneer of cancel culture

Christopher Sandford

Art August 23, 2021

The art of politics: what ministers hang on their walls

The people have a right to know what’s on Boris’s wall

Laura Freeman

Television August 23, 2021

Perry Mason was America’s Sherlock Holmes

Perry Mason personified the country that won World War Two and was enjoying well-deserved prosperity

Chilton Williamson, Jr.

Film August 23, 2021

Somebody’s watching me

All Light, Everywhere reviewed

Nicky Otis Smith

Book Review August 23, 2021

A fatal clash of civilizations

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest by Fernando Cervantes reviewed

Daniel Rey

Books August 23, 2021

A letter to George Steiner

George Steiner was easier to admire than to love

Frederic Raphael