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Jenny McCartney

Jenny McCartney: Syria’s own ‘immigrant problem’
February 18, 2016
The British attitude to refugees is hardening, a recent poll suggests, even as the desperate emptying of Syria has accelerated. In January, 41 per cent of people surveyed said that Britain should take fewer refugees from Syria and Libya. Last September, the figure was 31 per cent. That shift is likely to be connected to
Film: Fiennes makes a splash in a holiday hothouse
February 11, 2016
A Bigger Splash (15, 124 mins, ★★★★) For a film with such a watery title, A Bigger Splash takes palpable delight in characters that play with fire. It opens with Marianne (Tilda Swinton), a famous rock star, recuperating from a throat operation on a small Italian island with her devoted younger boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts).
Film: Betrayal and bear attacks are only the beginning
January 21, 2016
The Revenant (15, 156 mins), Alejandro González Iñárritu’s epic story of frozen wastes in the 1820s, is a proudly relentless film, which takes death and discomfort as its starting place, and steadily ratchets up the pain. Fortunately, at least nine-tenths of its protagonist, the frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), appears to be composed of grit.
Jenny McCartney: An industry powered by schadenfreude
December 22, 2015
The story of the 50-year-old woman known only as “C”, who recently argued for her legal right to refuse life-saving treatment on the grounds that her life had “lost its sparkle”, has a particular resonance for our times. It was not “C”s expression of exhaustion with a potentially dreary future which seemed unusual: such feelings
Film review: A Flaubert tribute that’s as flaky as French pastry
August 20, 2015
Gemma Bovery is a contrived comedy; briefly enjoyable but lacking depth
Farage and Brand are filling a Christian vacuum
January 08, 2015
Neither man has the right answer to Britain’s difficulties, but if we look at their support, it can lead us to the right questions
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