OpinionUK news This article is more than 13 years oldA Titanic mistake we can all learn fromThis article is more than 13 years oldIan JackNew evidence suggests the tragedy could have been prevented. Why has it only now come to light?Like many in my generation I first came across the Titanic's second officer, Charles Herbert Lightoller, in a cinema in the late 1950s. Kenneth More played him in A Night to Remember, which remains the most persuasive filmed account of the disaster, in part because certain qualities of British behaviour in 1912 – dignity, repression - were still accessible as memories to the Pinewood studios of 1958. Read More...
ObituaryFrank TarloffHe stood up to McCarthyismWhen Frank Tarloff, who wrote the successful 1960 comedy film School For Scoundrels and won an Oscar for his screenplay for Cary Grant's Father Goose, lectured students at the University of Southern California about Hollywood's McCarthyite period, it was more than an academic subject. For Tarloff, who has died aged 83, had himself been blacklisted after being called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the early 1950s. Read More...
IsraelHis past was Jewish, but today he sees Israel as one of the most racist societies in the western world. Historian Shlomo Sand explains why he doesn’t want to be Jewish anymore
During the first half of the 20th century, my father abandoned Talmudic school, permanently stopped going to synagogue, and regularly expressed his aversion to rabbis. At this point in my own life, in the early 21st century, I feel in turn a moral obligation to break definitively with tribal Judeocentrism. Read More...
