Can GB News go the distance?
TV channels can recover from a shaky and uncertain start
Last orders
Is this the end of the hospitality industry?
Duchess of platitudes
The true tragedy of Meghan’s book will be the better writers left on the bench
Burning the books
Should writers be allowed to destroy their own work?
Sequel opportunities
What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?
Bring back the fun!
Alexander Larman writes an open letter to the artistic directors of theatres
Freedom to expose
Do historians and biographers have a moral right to be shown classified documents?
The un-cancelled
It seems cancel culture is starting to lose its power
Curious and curiouser
The afterlife of Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Once a newspaperman
The true legacy of John Kay
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
Britain should stand up to Mauritius
The British Government must make it clear that it will not allow a foreign country to threaten British citizens
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
