Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
Stage frights
Do pop stars have what it takes to succeed in the theatre?
Classic mistake
Is Latin a dead language?
The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves at 30
Is this 1991 blockbuster an underrated masterpiece or kitsch nonsense?
Strap In, or Strap On?
Why is Prince Harry publishing a memoir?
They’re not laughing now
Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?
Vanishing worlds
Round-up: what do these books tell us about literary culture in 2021?
Pitch inversion
Boris Johnson may rue the day he gave a footballer a gong for something other than football
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world