This week, TLS editor Martin Ivens and writer and broadcaster James O'Brien on the long decline of the Conservatives; and Muriel Zagha celebrates 75 years of Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes. 'The Party's Over: The rise and fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak', by Phil Barton-Cartledge 'The Right to Rule: Thirteen years, five prime ministers and the implosion of the Tories', by Ben Riley-Smith 'The Case for the Centre Right', edited by David Gauke 'All to Play For: The advance of Rishi Sunak', by Michael Ashcroft 'The Red Shoes: Beyond the mirror', BFI Southbank, until January 7 Produced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.