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
Can public art ever be any good?
Nobody could accuse Hockney of over-exerting himself
The problem with adapting classic novels
Following the letdown of the new adaptation of The Pursuit of Love, Alexander Larman says that TV dramatisations of classic novels haven’t always been this bad
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unconquered by a
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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
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
Farage the fumbler
Nigel Farage is not built for the highest positions of responsibility
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience