Male authors: the sun also sets
Give up writing, men – the world will be a happier place when you do
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
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.
Self-harm in sheep’s clothing
The feminist fix: At least Schlafly did not pretend to be one of us
Is Covid a Christmas or a disaster movie?
Yippee-nu-xi, Omicronner!
The American Civil War – could the South have won?
Professor Jeremy Black discusses how the Confederate forces hoped to overcome the superior numbers and resources of the North
Boris must go – but that won’t solve the problem
The Tories are sailing into a storm
That was then, this is now
It’s a kindness of friends not to look at what we’re doing
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
Misogynists and their handmaidens
The feminist fix: Silence will not protect you from bullies
Boris’s Tricky Dicky problem
When Carrie does it, that means it’s legal
Count the cost
The government is running out of time to stop messing up
The longest night of my life
Researchers should re-think prescribing magic mushrooms for depression
That got real old real fast
At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida