Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
Super Thursday
The busiest day of the publishing calendar offers hope for some, but ruin for many
Last Night of the Proms – a storm in a teacup?
BBC Proms row has developed into an unexpectedly successful publicity stunt
Is this the end for the National Trust?
Proposed money-generating changes could be the demise of a national treasure
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
The celebrification of children’s literature
Children’s book publishing needs to take a step away from celebrities
Gordon’s (Still) Alive: Flash Gordon at 40
Remembering the cult-classic science-fiction romp
The demise of the second-hand bookshop
Why Oxfam bookshops, as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller
Food for Thought
The saga of the Rex Whistler restaurant and Tate Britain
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
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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
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
The right-wing case for social media
X and other platforms can be vital sources of unfashionable information and dissenting opinions
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Peston’s Inbox
Keir has my complete backing – Wes
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem