John Saumarez Smith: a bibliophile and a gentleman
The Heywood Hill bookseller has died
Good-natured amateurishness
British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
Cancelling Terry Gilliam (again)
Gilliam is now 80, and seems as cheerily intent on causing trouble and controversy as ever
Grubbing a living
These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious
Female strength on film
Is Sir Ridley Scott a surprising feminist?
Sally Rooney and cultural boycotts
Rooney has now run into greater controversy than simple literary taste
Goodnight, Mr Bond
It’s time to let the man who saved the world, and the cinema, rest in peace.
In the shadows of giants
Why are so many still enthralled by even the most grotesque Victoriana?
Now then, now then
Should there be a new drama about Jimmy Savile?
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
Badgers, banknotes and British decline
Ed Davey might admire Winston Churchill but he should have learned from him
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Profile: Allan Massie
The recently deceased Scots journalist and author
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Eroticism and intrigue
Out of Vienna (Alpha-Classics)
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Going for Broke
It’s that time of year to publicly humiliate oneself with Cheltenham tips
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts