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Hello and welcome to Spectator Outland.

I'm Sam Holmes, and today we're going to be hearing three of the articles from this week's Spectator magazine.

First up, we're going to have Mary Wakefield on Tom Cruise.

We're going to have John R. MacArthur on Melanchon's R. McCrter McCron.

And finally, Daisy Dunn listens to the Gucci podcast.

First, it's Mary Wakefield.

I keep reading that Tom Cruise is the last great movie star,

as if he's some noble but endangered animal.

I think his people must be putting it about,

as part of the PR for Top Gun 2.

The Lord knows what his peers make of it.

Think of Tom Hanks, Jody Foster, Merrill Streep, De Niro.

All of them Oscar winners, unlike Cruz,

and all with a better claim to being the last great star. Tom Cruise himself seems comfortable with the idea. He walks and talks like the last great movie star, controlled, confident,

impeccably dressed, with just a hint of a helpful Cuban heel. But the higher his star rises, the odder it seems that no one mentions the cult he belongs to, or how it behaves.

Former members of the Church of Scientology have testified to bullying, blackmail, slave labour and a form of child abuse,

separating children from their parents. This is the call-out era. No one can

so much as retweet a joke without being cancelled. So where are the crowds with placards outside Top Gun

Maverick at the LA Multiplex? It's not as if Tom is a casual or a junior member. In Scientologist's

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