‘The Sun Wot Won It’?
When has media coverage really influenced politics?
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
Healing power of outdoors
Alexander Larman reviews The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman
The oldest rockers in town
The original generation of rock ‘n’ rollers remain more interesting than modern stars
What will become of the hospitality industry?
Has Britain’s favourite pastime of eating and drinking reached its peak? How will the industry recovery from this financial blow?
Publish and Be Damned
Woody Allen and the #MeToo mob
Why are we in thrall to conmen?
Alexander Larman looks forward to new drama Quiz on ITV
Are the Beatles still underrated?
If Lennon and McCartney had never met, Britain would have been more boring and less colourful
Does drama need the theatre to survive?
I am anticipating watching theatre from home with some trepidation
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
A new low in anti-vape scaremongering
There is no great risk of oral cancer among vapers
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Representation gets raunchy
We have to stop the patronising pandering to communities in the name of “representation”
Those WhatsApp groups in full
Thirteen reasons to ban politicians from smartphones
The joy of pets
Pet ownership is one of life’s simple pleasures, but it also lifts the soul
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
