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Ken Loach has said The Old Oak will be his last film – he’s 87; the golf course probably beckons.…
Why are Labour politicians siding with Ken Loach?
Richard Leonard, former leader of the Scottish Labour party, has posted a photograph of himself standing beside Ken Loach on…
Sensational: The Souvenir reviewed
Joanna Hogg’s films are the antithesis of popcorn entertainment so if it’s not the antithesis of popcorn entertainment that you…
The hypocrisy of Ken Loach’s Eurovision boycott
The Guardian last week published a ‘we, the undersigned’ letter from 50 ‘artists of conscience’ urging the BBC to boycott…
There’s nothing radical about Mike Leigh’s films
So there I was in Soho Square on a cold and rainy morning, nibbling my complimentary almond croissant and eagerly…
My knuckles went pure white and have yet to return to full colour: Custody reviewed
Custody is both social realism and a thriller and it’s terrific. It is smart, beautifully acted, never crass about the…
In praise of braindead filth
Melvyn Bragg on TV: The Box That Changed The World (BBC2, Saturday) was just what you would have expected of…
These days, compassion is for hacks and Lib Dems
There’s a hard, hard mood out there among the public and I don’t think our newspapers get it at all.…
Sexed-up pacifism
Big-screen documentaries never change the world. Blackfish has not shortened the queues to see maltreated killer whales leap through hoops…
Letters
We need religion Sir: Roger Scruton (‘Sacred hunger’, 31 May) describes a reason, dare I say a ‘purpose’, for religion in…
Ken Loach is a bore
He hasn’t made anything worth watching since Kes
A powerful inspiration
Everyone knows about the Spanish civil war, first battlefield in the struggle that broke out in 1936 and ended nine…
