Matt d’Ancona is an award-winning political columnist, and, for four years, was an editor and partner at Tortoise. Previously he was Editor of the Spectator and Deputy Editor at the Sunday Telegraph. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1989. Matt’s latest book, Identity, Ignorance and Innovation, was published by Hodder in March 2021.
Matthew d’Ancona
“As someone who roams the borderlands between politics and culture, I relish Tortoise’s commitment to looking with an open mind and a forensic eye at the deep dynamics shaping our world.”
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Thursday 12 January 2023
09:00-10:00 GMT
The Review
The breakfast event that helps Tortoise members and friends make sense of the headlines. This week: the economy, the government, the strikes, sibling rivalries and royal autobiographies
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Thursday 29 September 2022
19:30-20:30 BST
Nostalgia and lies: how much of British history is actually true?
How to we identify what parts of our collective history are truths or lies, and how those stories we tell ourselves shape our lives today.
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Thursday 6 October 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
The Art of Speechcraft
Phil Collins takes us inside his process to reveal the message inside the rhetoric, telling stories of great speeches, what makes a great soundbite, and how to say something without actually saying it
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Thursday 27 October 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
A Nightmare on Downing Street: will anyone survive?
The real life fears our government face today from the cost of living crisis and the crash of the economy, to the changes in our society.
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Tuesday 6 December 2022
18:15-21:15 GMT
Tortoise Lates: Christmas
Join us as we chat to Trevor Horn all about his memoir adventures, the secrets and the stories behind the greatest hits of all time.
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Thursday 20 October 2022
09:00-10:00 BST
The Review
Join us at our fortnightly breakfast event that helps Tortoise members and friends make sense of current world affairs, the breaking news and latest scoops.
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Thursday 6 October 2022
18:00-21:30 BST
Tortoise Lates: Power and the Press
Tortoise Lates: Power and the Press edition will be an evening of conversations exploring the interplay of power, politics and the press.
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Thursday 29 September 2022
18:00-21:30 BST
Tortoise Lates: History
Tortoise Lates: the History edition will bring together well-known historians, best-selling authors, Tortoise editors and a bona fide national treasure to explore history in a new way.
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Tuesday 12 July 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
In conversation with London’s First Lady of Soul, P.P Arnold
P.P Arnold on her life story and career, spanning five decades of rock’n’roll history.
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Tuesday 19 July 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Does British democracy work for you?
Who has the power to change Britain for the better, and where?
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Tuesday 28 June 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Does British Democracy Work For You?
Who has the power to change Britain for the better, and where?
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Tuesday 24 May 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Does British democracy work for you?
Who has the power to change Britain for the better, and where?
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Tuesday 17 May 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Should you own a second home?
Should people be allowed to own multiple homes, or should home ownership be restricted?
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Tuesday 26 April 2022
18:30-19:30 BST
Limits in comedy: how far is too far?
Who’s laughing?
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Thursday 24 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMT
Which films should have won the Oscar?
If fewer of us agree with the winning choices, is this a sign the Oscars has become irrelevant?
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Monday 7 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMT
The Sun (set): is the age of the tabloid over?
What do huge losses and the terminal decline of print media mean for the Sun?
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Wednesday 2 March 2022
18:30-19:30 GMT
Open News Meeting
On Wednesday evenings, Tortoise journalists have a weekly news meeting to chew over the live news agenda.
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Tuesday 18 January 2022
18:30-19:30 GMT
Is the NHS overrated?
Is our obsession with the NHS as a national institution blinding us to how it needs to change? Are privatised elements of the health service really such a bad idea? And when it comes to modernising the NHS, where do you even start?
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Monday 6 September 2021
18:30-19:30 BST
The Arms Race: how many more people will die from Covid-19?
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
18:30-19:30 BST
Should Boris Johnson announce a National Education Emergency?
Following the Tortoise Education Summit, we held a ThinkIn to draw up an ambitious plan for educational transformation.
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Friday 28 May 2021
13:00-14:00 BST
Five get censored: is children’s literature really that bad?
How worried should we be about the effect popular children’s books are having on our kids? Join us for Creative Sensemaker Live.
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Thursday 20 May 2021
18:30-19:30 BST
In conversation with Richard Dawkins
Join Tortoise Editor Matt d’Ancona in conversation with Richard Dawkins.
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Wednesday 21 April 2021
18:30-19:30 BST
Whitty, Vallance and SAGE: have the scientists failed Britain?
To what extent are our senior scientific advisors accountable for the UK’s Covid catastrophe? Have your say.
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Wednesday 7 April 2021
18:30-19:30 BST
Never mind the bigots: Could punk save the 21st century?
What can today’s social media activists learn from the Punk movement? Join us to find out.
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Friday 26 March 2021
09:00-15:00 GMT
The Future of Cars Summit
Join us and invited experts to discuss the big questions about the future of cars
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Friday 26 February 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
Creative Sensemaker – #AllTogetherNow: is social media the new cultural venue?
Is the new cultural venue your Twitter feed? Join us to find out.
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Thursday 18 February 2021
18:30-19:30 GMT
A ThinkIn with Carol Ann Duffy: on family life, love and letting go
Join the former Poet Laureate, as she shares her collection of modern and classic poems on the ups and downs of family life.
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Tuesday 16 February 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
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Thursday 25 February 2021
08:30-14:50 GMT
The Future of Money Summit
Join us an invited experts to discuss the big questions about the future of money
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Friday 29 January 2021
13:00-14:00 GMT
Creative Sensemaker Live: will the great book comeback last?
Did 2020 set the fire under the book renaissance?
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Friday 11 December 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
Creative Sensemaker Live: reasons to be cheerful in 2021
Cinema and live music return, finally, in 2021. Apart from Glastonbury, what else is there to get excited about?
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Tuesday 8 December 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
Open News
Add your voice to the Tortoise editors’ weekly news conference. Bring story ideas and perspectives. Have your say.
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Tuesday 17 November 2020
07:55-09:00 GMT
Biodiversity rules: what more should all of us be doing to protect nature?
What should we be doing on an individual level to protect the environment, and what should we expect from the governments that lead us?
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Thursday 29 October 2020
18:25-19:30 GMT
James O’Brien
The outspoken radio presenter on how to change your mind in a world that is notoriously unforgiving of uncertainty.
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Friday 6 November 2020
12:55-14:00 GMT
Creative Sensemaker Live – The day the music died: can British music recover from Covid?
The first of our Creative Sensemaker Live ThinkIns.
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Tuesday 3 November 2020
13:00-14:00 GMT
Open News
Have your say at our live news conference.
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Friday 30 October 2020
12:55-14:00 GMT
Sensemaker Live: American culture and values
Is the dream dead? And if so, what killed it?
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Tuesday 13 October 2020
07:55-09:00 BST
Building Back Better: have the UK’s infrastructure priorities changed?
Breakfast ThinkIn: how do we build our way out of this crisis?
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Tuesday 6 October 2020
13:00-14:00 BST Open News
Join the Tortoise editors and members from all over the world as, together, we grapple with the evolving live news agenda.
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Wednesday 23 September 2020
18:30-19:30 BST
How can the pandemic turn into an opportunity to re-set, rebuild and renew?
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Tuesday 18 August 2020
18:30-19:30 BST
Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, joins Matt d’Ancona to discuss her new book Caste: The Lies That Divide Us
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Friday 10 February 2023
How The Wicker Man and The Exorcist redefined horror
Fifty years on, Matthew d’Ancona explains why the two films are still spookily relevant
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Thursday 9 February 2023
The triumph of the storyteller
Victory City is Salman Rushdie’s first novel since the horrific attempt on his life in August – a virtuoso work of fiction that shows why the right to free expression must be defended much more robustly
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Monday 6 February 2023
Not with a bang, but a simper
Liz Truss’s 4,000-word “comeback” essay is both preposterous – and yet another symptom of the approaching end of the long Conservative era
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Thursday 2 February 2023
The weight of grief
Brendan Fraser’s Oscar-nominated performance in The Whale as a morbidly obese shut-in online teacher is a master-class in the quest for hope amid the despair of bereavement
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Monday 30 January 2023
The Zahawi affair shows that Sunak is in the wrong line of work
The PM should not have needed Sir Laurie Magnus’s epically scathing report to decide that his now-former party chair had to go. He lacks the instincts, guile and character of of a true political leader
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Thursday 26 January 2023
Home movies
Steven Spielberg’s epic autobiographical film, The Fabelmans, is rooted in trauma and the director’s lifelong response to it
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Monday 23 January 2023
Sunak’s problem is that he’s right. The voters aren’t idiots
The controversies over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs and Richard Sharp’s role in securing a loan for Boris Johnson will entrench the public’s impression of the Conservatives as fatally out of touch
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Monday 16 January 2023
The reckless truth of Dave Chappelle
Matthew d’Ancona on why the comedian deserves to be labelled the Greatest Of All Time
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Thursday 12 January 2023
Projection of the soul
Set in the early 1980s, Empire of Light is a love letter by Sam Mendes to the cultural power of cinema. It is also a nuanced account of mental illness, and its human cost
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Monday 9 January 2023
Harry’s sad kingdom of the self-righteous
The prince who had so much to offer has succumbed to the hypermodern cult of unsullied rectitude and victimhood. His compulsive oversharing helps nobody, least of all himself
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Thursday 5 January 2023
The duty to see
The horrific murder in 1955 of Black teenager Emmett Till and its aftermath are harrowingly portrayed in Chinonye Chukwu’s powerful new film – telling a story that remains full of contemporary resonance
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Thursday 15 December 2022
‘Tis the season to be streaming
What to watch during the festive break
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Monday 12 December 2022
Whatever happens, Sunak will pay a heavy price for the strikes
When governments fall into decay and decline, they are invariably blamed for industrial action and disruption – and this prime minister is doing nothing to make that less likely
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Thursday 8 December 2022
Emotional intelligence
ITVX’s fine adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s book on Kim Philby’s interrogation by his greatest friend, Nicholas Elliott, is powered by the performances of Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis – and a richly imaginative sense of what the Cambridge spy scandal truly signified
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Monday 5 December 2022
Sunak’s “small boats” fixation is an unsettling echo of Trump’s Wall
“Taking back control” of the UK’s borders means recognising that control is not a trophy but a responsibility. It also means speaking unwelcome truths to the British public
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Thursday 1 December 2022
Just in time
Emma Corrin’s performance as Orlando in Michael Grandage’s production of Virginia Woolf’s great experimental novel brings fresh life to a story that feels more contemporary than ever
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Monday 28 November 2022
Hancock’s lesson for Sunak
The former health secretary’s surprisingly successful performance in the jungle is a warning that purely technocratic politics is no longer enough
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Thursday 24 November 2022
The unfinished revolution
Five years ago, New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey revealed the terrible truth about Harvey Weinstein. She Said is a gripping movie adaptation of the story that launched a worldwide movement
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Monday 21 November 2022
Don’t walk into the Brexit elephant trap, Mr Starmer
Last week’s autumn statement was meant to hem in Labour on fiscal policy. Now, Rishi Sunak is trying to tempt the Opposition leader onto lethal ground of a different sort.
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Thursday 17 November 2022
All you can eat
Timothée Chalamet and director Luca Guadagnino are reunited in a genre-blending movie that confronts taboos, juxtaposes romance and horror, and fires the imagination
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Monday 14 November 2022
Sunak is a much greater gambler than Truss
The previous PM was always doomed to fail. On Thursday, Jeremy Hunt will unveil an autumn statement that bets the farm on a high-risk fiscal strategy that may well be the Tories’ last throw of the dice.
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Thursday 3 November 2022
Life actually
Bill Nighy gives an Oscar-worthy performance as a 1950s bureaucrat facing death, in a brilliant remake of Kurosawa’s classic Ikiru
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Monday 31 October 2022
Rishi Sunak: culture warrior
As he prepares to take deeply unpopular economic decisions, the new PM has put in place a team to fight a separate anti-wokery strategy. But he should beware the potential perils of such a plan
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Thursday 27 October 2022
Purple prose
Nick Hornby’s dual study of his cultural heroes, Charles Dickens and Prince, is a fine parallel portrait of creative genius – and its mysterious origins
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Monday 24 October 2022
The time will never be right, Mr Johnson
After a farcical weekend of infantile political intrigue, the Conservative party must now accept once and for all that the era of the former prime minister is over
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Thursday 20 October 2022
Peripheral vision
William Gibson, the master of cyberpunk and high-tech speculative fiction, at last gets a screen adaptation worthy of his work, in a spectacular new series starring Chloë Grace Moretz.
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Monday 17 October 2022
Truss’s premiership is a feature, not a bug
Jeremy Hunt’s command of this disastrous government is welcome. But it will take more than one political grown-up to save the Conservative Party
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Thursday 13 October 2022
Messages from the secret world
John le Carré’s collected letters offer a riveting insight into one of the great authors of the postwar era – and reveal, tantalisingly, that there are more tales of George Smiley to come
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Monday 10 October 2022
Truss is finished, but can still cause plenty of harm
It is a dangerous populist game to blame economic problems, inflation and poverty on particular groups of people. But this PM will try anything to cling to power
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Thursday 6 October 2022
Escape to reality
In its ambitious new science fiction exhibition, the Science Museum shows that creativity can be an engine of scientific discovery, and that art and science are more closely enmeshed than we might suppose
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Monday 3 October 2022
Yes, they blinked. But this is still the end of an era
Truss and Kwarteng gave in on the abolition of the 45p tax. But the damage is already done: we are nearing the end of the long Conservative ascendancy
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Thursday 29 September 2022
You must remember this
Kenneth Branagh gives a remarkable performance as Boris Johnson during the pandemic in This England – dramatising the intimate relationship between collective memory, plague and creativity
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Monday 26 September 2022
Labour should be the patriotic party
Starmer was right to open the Liverpool conference with the national anthem. Now he should make climate change a matter of national security
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Thursday 22 September 2022
Marilyn for the #MeToo era
Ana de Armas gives an astonishing performance in Blonde: a harrowing account of Monroe’s life that is full of contemporary resonance
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Monday 19 September 2022
Rites of passage
The Queen’s funeral marks the end of a remarkable ten days in national life. The monarchy will evolve. But it is not among the institutions in greatest need of radical reform
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Thursday 15 September 2022
Hooked to the silver screen
Moonage Daydream is an extraordinary, kaleidoscopic voyage through the mind and art of David Bowie
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Monday 12 September 2022
It is not the King who threatens constitutional order
In the populist era, we have more to fear from reckless government than meddling monarchy
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Thursday 8 September 2022
A nation of orphans
The collective grief will be seismic. But the Queen’s death is a moment to celebrate an historic reign, and unite in collective gratitude
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Thursday 8 September 2022
The history man
Ian McEwan’s new novel is a remarkable tour d’horizon of the postwar era – and has a claim to be the celebrated author’s masterpiece
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Monday 5 September 2022
We still live in Borisland
Johnson may be going, but the new PM will take over the government of a deeply scarred nation that he has led into social, moral and cultural crisis
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Thursday 1 September 2022
Our precious
The Rings of Power prequel series is worthy of its roots in Tolkien’s great saga – and speaks to the dreams and anxieties of the modern world
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Thursday 25 August 2022
Portrait of a marriage
A fine new documentary series on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward pays homage to a lost era of Hollywood giants – and shows that she was the more talented half of their 50-year partnership
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Monday 22 August 2022
Gove is right to stick with reality
Even those who opposed him have admired the former levelling up secretary’s gravitas, intellect and commitment to inconvenient truths. Such qualities will not be valued in a government led by Liz Truss
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Thursday 28 July 2022
The ghosts of justice
Charlotte Colbert’s debut feature, She Will, is a masterly horror film – and a profoundly imaginative exploration of the #MeToo movement
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Monday 25 July 2022
Fear and loathing on the Tory trail
The leadership run-off between Sunak and Truss is proving to be petty, dismal and squalid. Instead of growing in stature, the final two candidates are shrinking before our eyes
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Thursday 21 July 2022
The laughing time traveller
Robert B. Weide’s documentary on Kurt Vonnegut reclaims the writer for an age that needs his comic genius more than ever
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Monday 18 July 2022
The ethical crash is as damaging as its financial predecessor
You would never guess from the Conservative leadership contest that it is only happening because of a calamitous collapse in standards in public life – and in the voters’ trust
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Thursday 14 July 2022
The price of perfection
Barney Douglas’s new documentary McEnroe is a subtle and enthralling exploration of a complex, cerebral tennis genius
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Monday 11 July 2022
Bedtime Tory stories
Thus far the leadership contest to replace Boris Johnson has been a festival of delusion and evasion. Do the candidates grasp how great is the task, and how much damage there is to repair?
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Thursday 7 July 2022
The other Boris
Peter Morgan’s new play explores the complex, lethal relationship between the oligarch Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Putin – and the battle for the soul of Russia that led, ultimately, to the war in Ukraine
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Monday 4 July 2022
The Pincher scandal reveals the true tawdriness of Johnson’s government
Sexual abuse is all about power. Michel Foucault is a better guide to Parliament now than Erskine May
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Thursday 30 June 2022
Just the facts, ma’am
Ed Perkins’ fine documentary The Princess rescues Diana’s story from the hyper-reality of myth and drama
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Monday 27 June 2022
Monty Python’s Flying Prime Minister
No wonder our jetsetting PM is so keen on his foreign adventures. At home, Boris “Three Terms” Johnson is becoming a joke
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Thursday 23 June 2022
Elvis is back in the building
Baz Luhrmann brings the extraordinary saga of the King’s Faustian pact with Colonel Tom Parker to the big screen – in typical maximalist style
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Monday 20 June 2022
Happy birthday, Brexit
Six years on from the referendum, two by-elections present Boris Johnson with his next test. But they will not break the paralysis now gripping our democracy
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Thursday 16 June 2022
The Georgian age
A new documentary movie about George Michael shows how great has been his cultural impact
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Monday 13 June 2022
A very British QAnon conspiracy
Johnson’s supporters are now claiming that there is a shadowy plot to bring him down – and promising absolutely anything to keep him in office. This has become a battle between delusion and reality
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Friday 10 June 2022
It’s not just the government that’s in crisis
Our megapoll of 10,000 respondents is a flashing red light: the time for incremental reform is over
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Thursday 9 June 2022
Birgitte to the rescue
The return of Borgen and of Sidse Babett Knudsen as Foreign Minister Nyborg could not be more timely
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Monday 6 June 2022
The Queen deserves a better final PM than Johnson
In this evening’s confidence vote, Tory MPs have a chance to show they truly understand their duty to the nation, as well as to their party
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Monday 30 May 2022
The forever inquiry
Sue Gray’s report has failed completely to draw a line under partygate – and has exposed the feebleness of Johnson’s defence
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Thursday 26 May 2022
Help us, Obi-Wan. You’re our only hope
The return of the exiled Jedi Knight – and of his nemesis, Darth Vader – is a much-needed escapist treat
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Monday 23 May 2022
Ask not what Sue Gray can do for you…
The only certainty about the final report on partygate is that Johnson’s response will be inadequate. It is for others to stop the rot
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Thursday 19 May 2022
In-flight entertainment
Tom Cruise returns as Maverick in a sequel to Top Gun that is even better than the original
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Monday 16 May 2022
The Buffalo massacre should shame the world
Almost two years since George Floyd’s murder, this racist atrocity should not be treated in isolation from the poisonous climate in which it took place
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Thursday 12 May 2022
Multiple choice
Everything Everywhere All At Once turns the quantum science of the “multiverse” into a wondrous metaphor for the human condition
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Monday 9 May 2022
How Starmer can lose – and win
As the “Mr Rules” of Westminster, the Labour leader will be in an impossible position if fined over “beergate”. He should say in advance that he will go
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Thursday 28 April 2022
Follow the funny
In the new comic drama series, Gaslit, Julia Roberts excels as Martha Mitchell, the forgotten whistleblower of the Watergate scandal
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Monday 25 April 2022
Boris Johnson is killing the Tory party
In his destructive populism and disregard for basic decency, the PM has hollowed out the very tradition he claimed to personify
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Thursday 21 April 2022
Believe her
Having said goodbye to Villanelle, Jodie Comer takes to the stage – and addresses the grave injustice of women’s treatment in rape cases
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Thursday 14 April 2022
Coming home to roost
The return of Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem – and Mark Rylance’s Rooster Byron – to London’s West End could not be more timely
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Monday 11 April 2022
Why are we (almost) in Ukraine?
The stakes in this war are morally fundamental. They also involve the fragilities of western democracy – not least in France and Britain
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Thursday 7 April 2022
Keep on Rowling
The third film in the Fantastic Beasts series is the first movie inspired by the author’s work since her brave stand on women’s rights
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Monday 4 April 2022
What we owe the fallen of Bucha
The atrocities inflicted in this Ukrainian city should force the West to answer difficult questions about the war – and what, exactly, we are willing to sacrifice
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Thursday 31 March 2022
Loser spooks
Gary Oldman excels as Jackson Lamb, chief of MI5’s team of outcasts, as Mick Herron’s spy thrillers are at last brought to the screen
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Monday 28 March 2022
The Will Smith Doctrine has no place in Ukraine
Acts of aggression should not be rewarded – and President Biden was only speaking the unpalatable truth when he said that Putin has to go
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Thursday 24 March 2022
And the winner is…
For all their flaws, the Oscars remain a riveting spectacle. Can any movie stop The Power of the Dog this weekend?
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Monday 21 March 2022
Johnson wants to have his khaki and eat it
While staying out of the Ukraine conflict, the PM hopes to extract as much political profit from it as possible – in preparation for going to the polls
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Thursday 17 March 2022
Atticus on trial
Aaron Sorkin’s stage play of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird updates a classic American text – and offers an alternative to Gregory Peck’s iconic performance
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Monday 14 March 2022
Hope for peace – but prepare for the worst in Ukraine
Behind the scenes, Western leaders are preparing for Putin to escalate. Which is why we must redouble the flow of arms to Zelensky
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Monday 7 March 2022
The West is much too smug in its new no-cry zone
Even as we claim to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainians, we deny them the help they want most
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Thursday 3 March 2022
Darkness visible
Robert Pattinson is the perfect Batman for our times, in a movie that owes more to classic film noir than blockbuster superhero franchises
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Monday 28 February 2022
This is history, Mr Johnson. Are you up to it?
The Ukraine war is about much more than Western unity or Nato membership. It is a defining moment in the battle between autocracy and freedom
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Thursday 3 February 2022
The art of memory
Joanna Hogg’s masterly sequel to The Souvenir – a meditation on grief, creativity and class – strengthens her claim to be one of the great directors of our time
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Monday 31 January 2022
Don’t be fooled by Johnson’s Wag the Dog distractions
The PM will do anything to divert our attention from the parties scandal. The question is whether we oblige him
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Thursday 27 January 2022
Animal spirits
The Royal Academy’s remarkable new Francis Bacon exhibition reframes the great modern artist in a fresh, sharply contemporary light
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Monday 24 January 2022
Boris Johnson’s final strategy: nobody gets out of here alive
There is almost nothing that this prime minister will stop at to cling on to power. Sue Gray’s report is only the next obstacle that lies in his increasingly destructive path
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Thursday 20 January 2022
Bright side of the road
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast succeeds precisely because it juxtaposes the violence of the Troubles with the warm normality of everyday family life
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Monday 17 January 2022
There’s only one leaving do that matters now
Boris Johnson’s time is up. But not even his potential successors know what can be rescued from the wreckage
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Thursday 13 January 2022
Laughter in the dark
The final season of After Life seals the reputation of Ricky Gervais as a master of comic observation and a valiant defender of irony
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Monday 10 January 2022
Johnson vs the Tory rebels: shame they can’t both lose
The Conservative libertarians are absurdly out of pace with the challenges of the 21st Century. But the PM is too shambolic to offer a coherent alternative
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Thursday 6 January 2022
It’s about time
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza is a comic masterpiece – and much more than an exercise in cinematic nostalgia
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Thursday 16 December 2021
Electric dreams
The new Matrix movie revives a sci-fi saga whose core ideas have moved from the digital counter-culture of geeks, hacks and stoners to the very mainstream of modern life
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Monday 13 December 2021
Twenty-four hour party people
Just when we need a proper government to fight Omicron, we have a gang of rule-breaking revellers far worse than the “elites” they sought to supplant
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Thursday 9 December 2021
Something’s coming, something good
Spielberg’s dazzling new version of West Side Story is a homage to the Broadway original – with just the right infusion of modernity
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Monday 6 December 2021
If “levelling up” means anything, it means saving a child like Arthur from hell
Yet another inquiry into the failure of child protection services will achieve nothing without ministerial commitment, policy imagination and true accountability
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Thursday 2 December 2021
How Buckley and Vidal invented today’s culture wars
A new play by master dramatist James Graham shows how the legendary debates of 1968 between the two US polemicists changed politics forever
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Monday 29 November 2021
The Arms Race
Johnson is lying about variants and vaccines
Omicron is the predictable consequence of political failure. Until the international community gets serious about vaccine sharing, there will be ever nastier Covid mutations
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Thursday 25 November 2021
Fashion victims
Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is an irresistible fusion of true crime, in-your-face couture and dynastic feuding
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Thursday 18 November 2021
KITE takes flight
Time to book your tickets for our new festival of ideas and music in June 2022
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Thursday 11 November 2021
The return of the squid
As season two of Squid Game is announced, the Netflix sensation strengthens its grip on the global imagination as a parable of the age of debt
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Thursday 4 November 2021
Welcome to the ABBA metaverse
The release of the supergroup’s first new album in 40 years marks their conquest of the digital age
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Thursday 28 October 2021
Going underground
The second season of Temple – in which Mark Strong plays a doctor in an illegal underground clinic – is a gripping parable for our insecure times
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Monday 25 October 2021
Plan B should be implemented now. But Boris Johnson’s ego won’t allow that
A modest recalibration of the government’s Covid strategy would lift pressure on the NHS. But the PM will wait until he has absolutely no other option
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Thursday 21 October 2021
A planet ready, at last, for its close-up
More than half a century after Frank Herbert’s Dune was published, Denis Villeneuve has created the movie version it deserves – and a timely parable of today’s environmental crisis
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Monday 18 October 2021
Let us honour Sir David Amess by protecting Parliament as well as MPs
Our system of representative democracy is in poor repair, targeted by terrorists and disdained by populists. We must halt its perilous decline
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Thursday 14 October 2021
The rich are different
Succession, which returns on Monday, was always much more than a satire on the Murdoch family: it elevates television drama to the status of American myth
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Monday 11 October 2021
The Kathleen Stock case is about much more than trans rights
The campaign of intimidation against the Sussex University scholar is a parable of much else that is wrong with our culture – and a terrible sign that we are becoming cavalier about free expression
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Thursday 7 October 2021
Prince of the city
Cush Jumbo’s Hamlet at the Young Vic is a dazzling interpretation of the part that tests Shakespearean performers more than any other
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Monday 4 October 2021
Unlike the rest of us, Johnson has plenty of fuel left in the tank
Do not confuse the present crisis with the beginning of the end for the PM. He will long outlast this Tory conference
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Thursday 30 September 2021
The unbreakable Bond
Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 seals his reputation as the finest Bond – leaving big Crockett & Jones shoes to fill
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Monday 27 September 2021
New Labour is as much of a problem for Starmer as the Left
This week in Brighton, the opposition leader must show that he has what it takes to liberate his party from the battle between competing forms of political nostalgia
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Thursday 23 September 2021
Saints, sinners and Sopranos
The movie prequel to the legendary mafia television series is a worthy addition to its mythology – and much more than the tale of what made Tony Soprano the man he became
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Thursday 2 September 2021
People like Sally and Boris
Whisper it quiet, but the acclaimed author Sally Rooney (a Marxist) and the Prime Minister (a Tory) are more alike than you’d think
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Thursday 26 August 2021
Listen: do you want to know a secret?
How do you turn a Beatle into a Beatles fan, who loves the Fab Four’s music as much as the rest of us do? By getting record industry legend Rick Rubin to interview Sir Paul McCartney – in an extraordinary encounter which can now be seen in the unmissable new Disney+ series, McCartney 3,2,1
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Monday 23 August 2021
Welcome to the real forever war
Biden’s poll numbers, Johnson’s wounded pride and Raab’s holiday are minor details in a huge story. The Afghan crisis is forcing us, very uncomfortably, to ask what we truly believe in
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Thursday 19 August 2021
The book we really need this week
As the world reels from the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan and the rejuvenation of fundamentalist Islam, the writer Sarfraz Manzoor offers an essential guide to the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in times of hectic change and of new pressures upon our pluralist society
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Wednesday 18 August 2021
Slow Reviews Part IV
Closer
Matthew d’Ancona on an album that was both a horrible end and a new beginning
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Monday 16 August 2021
This is how the West ends: not with a bang but a whimper
As the most powerful nation in the history of the world abandons the women of Afghanistan to a gang of misogynistic theocrats, how confident do you feel today about the strength of the “international community”?
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Thursday 29 July 2021
The DC empire strikes back
The comic book giant has – how shall we put this? – a mixed record when it comes to movies. But James Gunn’s new film, The Suicide Squad, shows that DC’s less orchestrated approach can still keep Marvel on its toes
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Monday 26 July 2021
The Cummings coup failed. But the next one might not
The brazen way in which Boris Johnson’s former adviser described his team’s plan to depose the PM – only days after his 2019 election triumph – is a warning of how much is at stake in the new age of populist, digitised politics
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Thursday 22 July 2021
Love is a losing game
Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s death. In tribute to the late singer, Reclaiming Amy, Marina Parker’s new documentary, is to be broadcast on BBC Two – and poses complex questions about who, exactly, was complicit in her tragic decline
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Monday 19 July 2021
Freedom Day? Not free from Covid, that’s for sure
Boris Johnson certainly did not envisage spending this long-awaited moment of liberation in self-isolation. But the virus is still rampant – and will remain so until there is a truly global strategy to beat it
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Thursday 15 July 2021
Countdown to Tokyo
Ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony next week, get in the mood with the ten best films that have dramatised or documented the Games over the years
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Monday 12 July 2021
England’s dreaming
We have a hooligan class of politicians – and a national football team composed of gentlemen. Let the heroic performance of Southgate’s squad be an inspiration to this feckless government
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Thursday 8 July 2021
Real magic
Paula Rego is one of the great artists of our times, roaming the marchlands between myth and reality – as can be seen in Tate Britain’s unmissable retrospective
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Thursday 1 July 2021
Pulp Fiction: The sequel
Cinema’s Lord of Misrule, Quentin Tarantino, has returned with a novelisation of his most recent film, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, and while the essence remains the same, the original narrative is subject to Tarantino’s trademark mischief
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Monday 28 June 2021
Yes, I was hugged by Matt Hancock
His resignation was inevitable and has bequeathed the new health secretary, Sajid Javid, a series of formidable challenges. It has also left Number 10 fearful that this is only the beginning of a media feeding frenzy
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Thursday 24 June 2021
The importance of being Ernest
In his latest documentary series, Hemingway, the great Ken Burns chronicles the life of one of 20th-century America’s most influential and personally complex authors
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Monday 21 June 2021
Don’t give in to the Nimbys, Boris
The Tories’ defeat in Chesham and Amersham has rattled the party’s southern MPs. But the prime minister should not yield to those calling for him to dilute planning reforms that are badly needed and socially just
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Thursday 17 June 2021
You’re better off dancing
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights is a glorious movie, and one that everyone should go and see. Almost inevitably, there has been a social media row over its content. But why not just enjoy its cinematic magic?
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Monday 14 June 2021
Boris gets boring
After the shimmering showbiz of the G7 summit, the prime minister has been forced by a pesky Covid variant to be dull and sensible. He hates nothing more
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Friday 4 June 2021
Dystopia revisited
Like Orwell before her, Margaret Atwood warned us what was coming
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Thursday 3 June 2021
The man inside
In Time, Jimmy McGovern’s outstanding new BBC prison drama, Stephen Graham shows, yet again, that he is one of Britain’s truly great actors
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Monday 24 May 2021
The Sword of Domocles
The cross-examination of Cummings this week will be that rarest of things: authentic political box office. He won’t bring the prime minister down. But he can certainly make his life miserable
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Thursday 20 May 2021
Curiouser and curiouser
Before the first lockdown it was all too easy to take for granted the wealth of museums and galleries that London – and the rest of the country – has to offer. Now that they‘re opening their doors once more, these world-class institutions need our support more than ever
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Monday 17 May 2021
Indian summer
Boris Johnson’s roadmap for lockdown easing is now imperilled by a rampant Covid variant. On 14 June, he must make one of the most difficult decisions of his life
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Thursday 13 May 2021
Back to the Quick Stop
On Monday, England’s lockdown restrictions will ease further. Top of my list of venues to visit? The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square
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Monday 10 May 2021
Same old Labour
Last week’s elections show that the political centre of gravity is shifting towards social conservatism matched by high public spending. In this new landscape, Keir Starmer is nowhere
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Thursday 6 May 2021
A class of its own
Emily Mortimer’s new adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel, The Pursuit of Love, brings to life a world divided by political and dynastic affiliations, echoes of which are still felt today
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Thursday 29 April 2021
On the road again
Nomadland tells the tale of Fern, a sixty-something woman from Nevada whose life collapses, forcing her to seek a new way of surviving on the move. Honoured as Best Picture at Sunday’s Oscars, the film is a modern masterpiece, subverting the American dream of “the road” with the bleaker 21st Century reality of older travellers struggling to get by in the pitiless gig economy
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Monday 26 April 2021
A poundshop Watergate
The feud between Johnson and Cummings was always on the cards, and has entangled the whole government in a clash between two narcissists at the worst possible time
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Friday 23 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Classic Dom
What just happened
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Thursday 22 April 2021
So Morrissey and Jordan Peterson walk into a bar…
Two very different celebrities associated with the Right have found themselves targeted by two of global pop culture’s biggest franchises this month – The Simpsons and Marvel’s Captain America. Their respective reactions have been revealing
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Monday 19 April 2021
The two Camerons
To understand why the former prime minister behaved as he did over Greensill, you have to grasp how very strange the plutocratic world of senior Tories really is
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Friday 16 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: Dignity and discord
What just happened
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Thursday 15 April 2021
Jagger’s edge
Welcome to Creative Sensemaker, our weekly guide to all that’s best in culture and the arts – movies, streaming, books, music, galleries and much else
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Monday 12 April 2021
The “problematic” prince
The rush to judge the Duke of Edinburgh by the standards of 2021 says more about us than him. We are forgetting the habits of decorum that help to bind a society
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Friday 9 April 2021
10 minute readSensemaker: A very naughty chancellor
What just happened
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Thursday 8 April 2021
Silence is golden
Riz Ahmed has a claim to be the most exciting British actor of our times. In Darius Marder’s upcoming directorial debut, The Sound of Metal, he delivers an Oscar-worthy performance
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Wednesday 7 April 2021
Slow Reviews Part III
Raw Power
Matthew d’Ancona on the fast, furious and downright deranged birth of punk rock
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Thursday 1 April 2021
Return of the King
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Monday 29 March 2021
No end of a lesson
The Batley Grammar School case shows what happens when liberalism loses its nerve and allows theocratic cherry-picking
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Thursday 25 March 2021
Simply the best
Tina Turner’s life story – a twin narrative of global superstardom and escape from horrific domestic abuse – is the subject of an all-encompassing new HBO documentary. Not flinching from the trauma of her marriage to Ike Turner, it nonetheless avoids defining her only as a victim. Far from it: this definitive film establishes her as one of the great entertainers of the last century
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Thursday 25 March 2021
Starmer’s case history
Starmer: what to do in Year Two
It is not enough to be “not-Corbyn”. He has to be visibly, impatiently “post-Boris”, writes Matthew d’Ancona
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Monday 22 March 2021
Beware the emotional-industrial complex
From vaccine hesitancy to the erasure of biological sex, facts are taking a bashing in the age of social media and of lobby groups weaponising feeling. The stakes are dauntingly high
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Thursday 18 March 2021
The thin grey line
Line of Duty, the UK’s most popular cop show, returns to BBC One this weekend for its sixth season. As well as being great TV, it poses truly contemporary questions about the conduct, accountability and powers of the police in 2021
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Monday 15 March 2021
The best way to commemorate Sarah Everard is with action
Reports, reviews, inquiries – this is a government trying to kick a crisis into touch. Cressida Dick’s replacement is only the first of many steps that must be taken urgently
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Thursday 11 March 2021
Lust for life
The Nineties may not actually be a cure for Covid – but the decade’s music, films, art and brash optimism, now enjoying a revival, can bring some much-needed fun to the grey days of Lockdown 3.0
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Monday 8 March 2021
Bankers need incentives, but so do nurses
Boris Johnson must grasp that showering health care professionals with praise is no longer enough. In this, as in other respects, the Conservatives must ditch pre-pandemic thinking
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Monday 22 February 2021
What Boris learned from Gordon
The plan to exit lockdown, unveiled by the PM this evening, will only work if the country accepts its complexity and can tolerate further delays
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Thursday 18 February 2021
Creative Sensemaker: The curious case of Sia’s disaster movie
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Monday 15 February 2021
Why so nervous, Boris?
The PM is rightly proud of the vaccine roll-out’s success. But that success is fraught with danger
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Thursday 4 February 2021
Creative Sensemaker: Golden Globes – the good, the odd, and the unforgivable
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Monday 1 February 2021
Three jabs on a shirt
Vaccine nationalism is inevitable, especially after Boris Johnson’s victory over the European Commission. But now the PM faces much deeper and unsettling questions about the UK’s place in the world
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Thursday 28 January 2021
Creative Sensemaker: The truth about Truman
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Monday 25 January 2021
No time for performative politics
Churchill, statues, “wokeness”: these should not be priorities for Left or Right in an age of pandemic
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Thursday 21 January 2021
Creative Sensemaker: Sinful to miss
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Monday 18 January 2021
The British coup you missed
The Tory MP Steve Baker threatened Boris Johnson’s leadership last week – revealing the tasteless idiocy of the lockdown sceptics
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Thursday 14 January 2021
Creative Sensemaker: History and ice cream
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Monday 11 January 2021
Killing joke
The Proud Boys who stormed the US Capitol last week started life as a risible drinking club. In the digital age, mutation is constant
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Thursday 7 January 2021
Creative Sensemaker: The rule of three
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Monday 4 January 2021
A happy new year is an honest one, Boris
As new Covid restrictions are finalised, the PM needs to break the habit of a lifetime and speak candidly about the great trials that lie ahead
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Wednesday 30 December 2020
The good that happened in 2020: 100-Year Life
2020 wasn’t all bad. And it’s important that we remember that. This series considers the heartening things that happened this year, according to each of Tortoise’s five main themes
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Wednesday 23 December 2020
Slow Reviews Part II
Angels in America
Matthew d’Ancona on a play about the AIDS epidemic – and beyond
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Thursday 17 December 2020
Creative Sensemaker: The real wonder woman
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Monday 14 December 2020
Le Carré’s last mission
John le Carré was much more than the greatest chronicler of the Cold War. He saw the fault-lines in all that followed – and warned us of them till the end
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Thursday 10 December 2020
Creative Sensemaker: A re-edit you can’t refuse
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Tuesday 8 December 2020
Year of the Screen
The stream that became a flood
Matthew d’Ancona on the shows that filled in the visual blanks of the pandemic
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Monday 7 December 2020
Brexit is for life, not just for Christmas
Whether or not we get a deal by the end of year, Britain is now going to enter a state of endless negotiation
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Thursday 3 December 2020
Creative Sensemaker: Introducing the Tortoise Book Store
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Monday 30 November 2020
Since when were MPs experts on pandemics?
A certain tribe of Conservative backbenchers is kicking up a fuss over new Covid restrictions. But this really isn’t a time – or a matter – for base politicking
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Thursday 26 November 2020
Creative Sensemaker: Smashed guitars and SNL
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Monday 23 November 2020
The two Rishi Sunaks
This week’s Spending Review will reveal a chancellor torn between a yearning to balance the books and the needs of a new era
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Thursday 19 November 2020
Creative Sensemaker: Royal fun
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Monday 16 November 2020
Halloween 2020
The PM’s day of horror
This week’s Tortoise File concentrates on the 24-hour period in which Boris Johnson first decided on, then announced, a second national lockdown. The calamities of those hours are still causing chaos today
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Monday 9 November 2020
The president-elect’s speech
Welcome words of healing and unity, but Biden faces an uphill struggle
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Friday 6 November 2020
Creative Sensemaker, 5 November 2020
The most important cultural stories, along with the best new books, movies, albums, games – and more
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Friday 6 November 2020
The battle is just beginning
Trump’s defeat would guarantee nothing. Trumpism lingers
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Friday 30 October 2020
10 minute read
Sensemaker, 30 October 2020
What just happened
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Thursday 29 October 2020
Creative Sensemaker, 29 October 2020
The most important cultural stories, along with the best new books, movies, albums, games – and more
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Monday 26 October 2020
How populists become unpopular
After Marcus Rashford’s campaign, the government may well U-turn – again – over free school meals. But why has it even come to that?
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Friday 23 October 2020
Recession 2021
Bootprints on our culture
Much like in the 1980s, Britain is facing a period of mass unemployment. Matthew d’Ancona looks back to then – and ahead from now
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Thursday 22 October 2020
Creative Sensemaker, 22 October 2020
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Monday 19 October 2020
Burnham, baby, Burnham
The mayor of Greater Manchester is taking on the government over its Covid restrictions. By doing so, he is standing up for localism
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Thursday 15 October 2020
Creative Sensemaker, 15 October 2020
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Thursday 8 October 2020
Creative Sensemaker, 8 October 2020
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Thursday 1 October 2020
Creative Sensemaker, 1 October 2020
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Friday 19 June 2020
The government is unwell
Sick man: transcript
Read Matt d’Ancona’s report on how Boris Johnson’s brush with death revealed a lethal amateurism at the heart of government
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Monday 4 May 2020
News Alert
The BBC is back
The BBC has a new lease on life. Only a few months ago, it was in the government’s crosshairs. The pandemic has renewed its public purpose and reminded everyone of its value – but it still faces threats to its funding, competition from the US streamers, and criticism that it is reporting the health crisis but not the coming recession. “So that’s all good then”
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Monday 20 April 2020
Coping with Covid-19
28 days later
Matthew d’Ancona reflects on how far we have come since Boris Johnson addressed the nation and told us: “You must stay at home.”
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Tuesday 31 March 2020
Fragile states
The future of the opposition
We have witnessed a stunning upheaval of mainstream politics. The Tories have become the party of big government and big spending. So where on earth does this leave Labour?
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Tuesday 13 August 2019
10 minute readDelirium tremendous
Ten days in a coma wasn’t the problem. It was the flying beds, Russian spies and being kidnapped
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Wednesday 3 April 2019
The horror, the horror
- The former foreign secretary, for all the setbacks he has suffered, remains a strong contender to succeed Theresa May in the forthcoming leadership contest – if he can make it to the final round
- Johnson has transformed his identity from a politician defined by chat-show popularity to one defined by right-wing populism
- His resilient success shows how politics has changed and has increasingly become a branch of celebrity culture, in which competence is less important than emotional impact
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Friday 1 July 2022
What’s the big idea, Tony?
At his grand summer festival of centrism, Tony Blair launched a movement for radical but practical change. Will there be enough takers?
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Thursday 16 June 2022
Episode 6: No future?
Age is an increasingly important dividing line in politics. But is this “generational warfare”?
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Thursday 9 June 2022
Episode 5: Any ideas?
Who’s got all the good ideas in politics these days? Lara Spirit and Matt d’Ancona are joined by Jesse Norman MP, author of biographies of Edmund Burke and Adam Smith
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Monday 6 June 2022
The Rules: democracy in Britain
Every day more cracks emerge in the political system that guarantees the freedoms Britons hold dear. How do we stop it shattering?
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Thursday 2 June 2022
Episode 4: The party that got away
Why did Sue Gray abandon her investigation into the Downing Street “Abba party” on 13 November 2020?
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Thursday 26 May 2022
Episode 3: Wes we can?
Could Wes Streeting be the next leader of the Labour party? Matthew d’Ancona and Lara Spirit discuss
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Thursday 19 May 2022
Episode 2: The two knights
Could Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey make a pact to give their parties a free run in certain seats? Matthew d’Ancona and Lara Spirit discuss
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Thursday 12 May 2022
Episode 1: The Canzini effect
David Canzini has emerged as one of the most powerful figures in Downing Street in recent months. Who is he and why does he matter? Matthew d’Ancona and Lara Spirit investigate
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Monday 9 May 2022
Downfall: twenty days that did for Rishi Sunak
How did Rishi Sunak go from one of the most popular members of the government to one of the least in a matter of days? Matthew d’Ancona pieces together what happened
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Tuesday 23 November 2021
Retreat from Kabul: 11 days in August – Part II
In Kabul, the Taliban’s takeover was assured. In London, an ignominious retreat, and the betrayal of former comrades in the Afghan army, was more than a group of ex-soldiers, now MPs, could stomach
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Monday 22 November 2021
Retreat from Kabul: 11 days in August – Part I
As the Taliban closed in on Kabul, and Western troops and desperate Afghans scrambled to leave, Britain found itself frozen out of decision making and incapable of influencing events. It was a stark illustration of the UK’s status, made worse by catastrophic misjudgements at the top of government
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Tuesday 1 June 2021
The second couple
After Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds’ wedding, there are now two powerful married couples in Number 10. Meet the other: Munira and Dougie
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Monday 1 March 2021
March of the Mutants
Covid may be losing the vaccine battle. But, as the virus evolves fast to form new variants, the war is most definitely not over
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Monday 11 January 2021
Shot in the dark
The vaccine is an incredible scientific achievement. But some of the political decision-making behind its rollout is rather less impressive.
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Tuesday 17 November 2020
Lockdown meltdown
Fear, delays, mistakes and recrimination. On 31 October, we looked to Boris Johnson’s government for certainty – they served up a nightmare
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Monday 5 October 2020
Hancock is GREAT
How test, track and trace became a national disaster
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Tuesday 16 June 2020
Sick man
Infected, leaderless. How Boris Johnson’s brush with death revealed a lethal amateurism at the heart of government