Matthew d’Ancona
01 May 2024
Challengers is unashamedly glamorous
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, exhibitions and books
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Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Knife is an absolute must-read
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books, television and cinema
Read the full article23 April 2024
Conspiracy theories are taking over the world
We must defeat the software of despair and stop its rewiring of our politics
Read the full article17 April 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Civil War is quite an accomplishment
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, books and streaming
Read the full article17 April 2024
Gids is a scandal on a par with the Post Office. So where does Starmer stand?
An aspiring Labour government cannot avoid the questions raised in the Cass review
Read the full article10 April 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Long Day’s Journey Into Night is breathtaking
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, television, books and cinema
Read the full article09 April 2024
Hate speech laws don’t work. Now Labour must learn from an SNP fiasco
Scotland’s hate speech law is a disaster. We need serious government, not toytown politics
Read the full article03 April 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Andrew O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road is fiction at its very best
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and cinema
Read the full article02 April 2024
Why I love the deep state
If it hadn’t been for the civil servants that the Conservatives so gleefully denigrate, Britain would have fallen apart years ago
Read the full article20 March 2024
Still cruel but no longer competent, the Tories are in moral freefall
The government is causing its own descent into the abyss. How low can Sunak and his cronies stoop?
Read the full article20 March 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Until August is a final gem from the great Gabo’s imaginative treasury
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s books and cinema
Read the full article13 March 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is a very special production indeed
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and cinema
Read the full article13 March 2024
Trump may still be defeated, but his MAGA is here to stay
This election is only the latest chapter in a saga that, unfortunately, is only just beginning
Read the full article08 March 2024
At last, Joe Biden comes out fighting
The president’s state of the union speech was a spirited attack on Donald Trump
Read the full article06 March 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Dune Part Two is even better than the first
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
Read the full article05 March 2024
The Big Apple vs the Big Orange
New York courts now look like the best chance of stopping Donald Trump’s return to the White House
Read the full article28 February 2024
ITV is now the nation’s conscience, and it’s telling the truth about Covid lies
What does it say about our politics that justice is now delivered via TV dramas?
Read the full article28 February 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: The Picture of Dorian Gray is unmissable
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
Read the full article21 February 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: One Love is a timely cinematic pageant
Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art
Read the full article20 February 2024
How the west betrayed Navalny
We could have helped him become Russia’s Mandela – but instead we preferred performative scolding and mindless culture wars
Read the full article14 February 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: An Enemy of the People is political drama of the highest calibre
Our editor-at-large’s new rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, film and TV
Read the full article13 February 2024
The republic is in grave peril as American Ulysses Biden fades away
The stakes in this election could scarcely be higher. Is Biden up to the challenge?
Read the full article07 February 2024
Matthew d’Ancona’s Culture: Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireworld is essential reading in post-Brexit Britain
Our editor-at-large's brand-new rundown of the pick of the week's theatre, film and TV
Read the full article07 February 2024
The flipside of Sunak’s smugness is his undeniable ridiculousness. He’s a joke
When they’re laughing at you, you know you’ve lost
Read the full article30 January 2024
Follow Germany’s lead and take fear and venom out of the migration issue
German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists
Read the full article23 January 2024
Trump and the nightmare of tyranny lurking within the American dream
Despite facing 91 felony charges, Trump is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. He is a dictator-in-waiting
Read the full article16 January 2024
Common decency vs the Post Office
For the sake of our souls, the idolisation of “business” must end
Read the full article10 January 2024
The karaoke moralists of Davos shrug as the fire they lit burns up the world
The world’s most discredited and pointless summit will provide few answers
Read the full article03 January 2024
Five ways that Starmer can be a PM of consequence by bringing back trust
Anything short of a hefty Commons majority will be viewed as a failure for the Labour leader
Read the full article20 December 2023
Doctor Who shows the best of Britain – Rishi Sunak is showing us at our worst
The returning sci-fi series – a British institution – reminds us that we still do many things brilliantly and with generosity of spirit
Read the full article12 December 2023
The Tories are a bunch of pound shop Enoch Powells
Faced with electoral oblivion, their reckless actions risk inflicting damage on the country that will take many years to repair
Read the full article06 December 2023
Rishi Sunak, the peevish toddler in Number 10
The row with Greece shows Sunak can’t even do basic diplomacy. So what’s the point of him being PM?
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