Outside the system
Author: Jake Arnott
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‘The Odyssey’ Backlash: A Journey Between Strangeness and Familiarity
The ‘culture war’ around the casting choices of Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of the Greek epic gets to the very themes Homer was writing about, writes Jake Arnott
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Achilles and Trump’s ‘Forever Wars’
Instead of threatening Iran with a return to the Stone Age, the United States could look to ancient stories of imperial folly to learn a thing or two, writes Jake Arnott
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It’s Alive! Or Is It?
The latest addition to this deathless corpus is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! starring recent Oscar winner Jessie Buckley as a fiercely feminist version of the monster’s putative consort.
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The Modern Fausts Among Us
The Epstein Files have released something undeniably diabolical into the air.
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The Nepo Baby Strikes Back
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham’s disownment of the House of Posh and Becks is a move both psychological and pragmatic, writes Jake Arnott
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Oedipus and the ‘Other’ Within Us All
In our theatre of social media, the modern chorus has become a cacophony of competing rights and opposing certainties where the contemporary curse is that of othering, writes Jake Arnott
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Empire Men: ‘The Sweet, Just, Boyish Masters’
Jake Arnott reveals the repressions that drove British Empire Men such as General Gordon, Lord Kitchener, Cecil Rhodes, Robert Baden-Powell and T. E. Lawrence
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The Daniel Morgan Murder and Police Corruption: The Evolution of the ‘Firm within a Firm’
From the Dirty Squad’s Soho days to Andy Coulson in the heart of government, Jake Arnott explains how bent coppers moved on from trading in porn and gold bullion, to information and kompromat
