The problem with Christmas movies
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Our writer gets grinchy about Love Actually and Elf
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Friday
Wednesday
The return of the brilliant Nicolas Cage
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He’s one of our most talented actors, elevating even the most awful of scripts
Friday
Is Prince Charles the royal racist?
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Meghan Markle alleges a bigoted remark about her child, but from who?
Wednesday
Donald Trump: monarchist?
As the Harry and Meghan carnival rumbles on, the Queen has found an unexpected source of support: Donald Trump. During an interview with Nigel Farage, Trump said of Meghan: ‘I’m not a fan of hers. I wasn’t from day one…she is trying do things that I think are very inappropriate.’ Meanwhile, he painted the Duke of Sussex
Monday
Remembering the brilliant Stephen Sondheim
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Our greatest dramatist has died
Monday
The unstoppable Meghan Markle
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A sit-down with Ellen shows she isn’t going anywhere, for better or for worse
Thursday
How Meghan Markle wins the White House
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Welcome to Meghan’s world, where artifice, pop culture and politics march in lockstep
Wednesday
Fawning over Kamala
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A new book attempts the impossible but offers little beyond platitudes
Tuesday
Threatened with yet another Downton Abbey film
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The (initially glorious) franchise plods on and on and…
Thursday
The Crown flirts with the unthinkable
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Will the next season suggest what many already believe about Princess Diana’s death?
Monday
The decline of the woke Marvel superhero movie
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The formula has run out of gas — and audiences seem to have had enough
Thursday
The Grand Old Duke of York attacks an Epstein victim
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Prince Andrew has never looked more desperate and vindictive
Friday
What’s wrong with Queen Elizabeth?
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Something might well be wrong
Monday
Mel Gibson defies the keyboard cancelers
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The bête noire for liberals in Hollywood is back yet again
Monday
Turning the page on James Bond
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James Bond was first a literary hero
Wanted this Halloween: terror films, not horror
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No more joyless Michael Myers slogs!
Wednesday
Succession is the wittiest, darkest show on TV
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The narcissism of the self-absorbed rich is always fun to watch
Wednesday
Squid Game’s bloody attack on inequality and dehumanization
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Netflix’s biggest hit ever startles us with our own powerlessness
Tuesday
Dave Eggers cancels Amazon
Selling books through Amazon is now part and parcel of a working author’s life. It would be a brave writer who decided to refuse to allow their work to be sold through earth’s biggest retailer. But that is exactly what Dave Eggers has done with his new book, The Every, which he has decreed can
Wednesday
Did the music industry enable R. Kelly?
As Harvey Weinstein was to film, so Robert ‘R.’ Kelly has been to the music industry. An energetic and profligate figure who enjoyed enormous commercial and artistic success in his heyday, Kelly’s downfall, with his convictions on nine charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, is now total. It looks likely he will be given a
