What’s Wrong with Woke Cinema? | Edward Howard
SPOILER WARNING FOR NO TIME TO DIE. No Time To Die, as I’m sure you’re aware, is the latest Bond adventure to hit cinemas, after having been delayed for over a year and a...
Culture
On Folly | Adam James Pollock
Despite many follies being created seemingly without a tangible purpose, more often than not their design is suggestive of meaning greater than beauty itself.
Conservatives are Best-Equipped for the Future of Art | Dustin Lovell
A few weeks ago, a certain tweet claiming that it was impossible for conservatives to make art made the rounds of Twitter. Like too many in the mainstream culture, its sender erroneously assumed that...
Understanding The Daniel Craig Bond Era | Tom Burroughes
Let’s go back to fun, zest for life, defeating the bad guys and doing the right thing without endlessly regurgitating old hurts.
For the Record, by David Cameron (Book Review) | Benjamin Sanders
‘We shared a liberal outlook’, David Cameron writes of his coalition partner, Nick Clegg, on page 7 of his autobiography. This isn’t exactly the best start you would hope for when reading the memoirs...
Piety and Polemic: Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions, by Abdal Hakim Murad (Book Review) | Carlos Perona Calvete
An excellent work of short aphoristic statements by a prominent British convert to Islam and Cambridge University professor, Abdal Hakim Murad’s (nee Tim Winter) Commentary on the Eleventh Contention oscillates between a phenomenally subtle...
Introducing the Mallard AU | Jeremy Amin, Emma McCaul & Jake Scott
Welcome to the Mallard Australia. Below, Emma, Jake and Jeremy briefly detail where the Mallard has come from, the problems it hopes to address, and where it is going. Origins The Mallard started in...
‘Moby-Dick’ and the Modern World | Luke Butterworth
Moby-Dick is not an easy read. The presence of the seemingly unconquerable tome on my desk tormented me for weeks. At times, slogging through such lengthy digressions as the differences between the right and...
Inside is Our Covid Plague Art | Mark Seymour
As we slowly pry our way out of the current pandemic, we’ve started to see the fruits of this suffering. With every pandemic there’s an artistic bounce-back to consolidate the struggles that came from...
Bradford Conversations | Thomas Ward
I moved into my Bradford bedsit in the evening of Christmas Day 2006. I had spent the day singing carols and eating Christmas dinner served by volunteers at the Salvation Army hostel that had...
