Can the monarchy last?
Prince Andrew’s televisual hara-kiri has imperilled the Crown, perhaps fatally
In memoriam Ennio Morricone: the man who defined film scoring
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most prolific composers in Hollywood
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
In praise of the Great British pub
Let us sip, slurp and quaff this weekend, and do our bit to keep the pub trade going
Age cannot wither them: has the casting of Ian McKellen as Hamlet gone too far?
Does age-blind casting work when adapting Shakespeare?
Brideshead Revisited at 75
In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
Should we listen to writers about their own work?
As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works
Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur
Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death
JK Rowling and the Wardens of Woke
The younger Harry Potter stars made their disagreement abundantly clear with the woman who made them
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
