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Woody Allen

July 2021

The strangeness of Tokyo’s huge head is amplified by the prevailing strangeness of these games.

Surreal spectacle of Tokyo’s COVID-19 Olympiad comes to a head

The Japanese government is spending big on an event that no one can attend. Banning alcohol in restaurants and bars makes the same amount of sense.

  • Leo Lewis

August 2020

Johnny Depp arrives at court.

Johnny Depp, the High Court and the reality of fame

The libel trial brought by the Pirates of the Caribbean star says as much about the dazzle of celebrity as the quest for truth.

  • Henry Mance

July 2020

The right to free speech is not the right to have your unfiltered thoughts published without critique.

Does cancel culture actually exist?

For the better part of the last decade, we have given a label to something that has existed for the length of human history.

  • Sarah Manavis

March 2020

Woody Allen's memoir was pulped despite hardly anyone having read it.

Woody Allen meets cancel culture

Publisher Hachette's decision to quash Allen's memoir is part of a dangerous trend to silence unpopular people and conflate accusation with guilt.

  • Bret Stephens

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