Remembering Jean-Luc Godard, one of the great film directors of our time
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He was innovative, influential, and, at times, infuriating
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
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He was innovative, influential, and, at times, infuriating
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With a superb performance in The Whale, his acting career has taken on new life
Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96, was the longest-serving British monarch. From the uncertain beginnings of her reign, acceding to the throne at the age of 25 after the unexpectedly early death of her father George VI in 1952, to final years troubled by public outrage displayed towards her son Andrew
It seemed fitting that, for her return to Britain, Meghan Markle was joined at the One Young World summit in Manchester by none other than Sir Bob Geldof. The presence – on a Monday, no less – of the Boomtown Rats hitmaker-turned-all-purpose humanitarian was designed to show the worthy company that the Duchess of Sussex
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The new Amazon Prime series is an exercise in artistic necrophilia
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A century after its first publication, the poem still defies easy categorization
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Visiting university towns for a uniquely civilized — and wholly British — experience
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Why does the actor still have such a hold on film executives?
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The danger seemed to have passed but extremists continue to plague the world
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The problems begin in the first episode, a kind of demonic take on Downton Abbey
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Batgirl is the latest movie to get the ax
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The disgraced biographer may be ‘repellent’ but he still has a right to free speech
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The band’s return is not just welcome but overdue
Jamie Vardy is one of English football’s most prolific strikers. But thanks to his wife, his surname will be forever associated with one of the all-time great legal own goals. Rebekah Vardy has spectacularly lost her high-profile libel battle against Coleen Rooney in the so-called ‘Wagatha Christie’ case. It’s hard to overstate how damning today’s judgment
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He’s a careful pair of hands but little else
Sydney Kentridge, the protagonist of Thomas Grant’s superb legal saga The Mandela Brief, is that trickiest of biographical subjects: a great man. Grant acknowledges ‘it is rare that, on closer acquaintance, a person touted as a “great” man or woman conforms to the initial description’, but the South African lawyer has been described by countless
When Prince Harry and Meghan ‘stepped back’ as working royals, you’d be forgiven for thinking we would see and hear from them a little less. Not so. This week, the Duke of Sussex has repeatedly hit the headlines. Not content with delivering a stern (and far from well received) speech at the United Nations, in which he
Every time that a picture of the Duchess of Sussex arriving at the United Nations is beamed around the world, it gets harder to avoid thinking the words: ‘she’s running’. Rumours of Meghan Markle’s presidential ambitions have been growing over the past few years, and she has done little to assuage them. Meghan’s every public
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‘It’s often said that if you’re a five in London, you’re a ten in Bath’
Did Elon Musk ever intend to buy Twitter, or was it all another piece of showboating from a man apparently addicted to the spotlight of publicity? After he announced last Friday that he was walking away from the $44 billion deal that he had previously agreed, Twitter has sued him. A lawsuit angrily states that