Kirk Douglas and cancel culture
Do we believe all stories as true, or presume innocence until proven guilty?
Criticising the critic
Criticism is a valuable art but it should never end up as a tool for bullying
Riotous tale of a vivid life, superbly lived
Alexander Larman reviews Lady in Waiting: My extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown, by Anne Glenconner
The politics of the Pet Shop Boys
How the electronic dance duo made more than a minimal contribution to music
Don’t mention the war, or Alf Garnett
The ‘offensive’ TV landmarks censored from Britain’s answer to Netflix
David Copperfield and the politics of diversity
Diverse casting of period adaptations is a risk worth taking
Wallis and Meghan – a tale of two abdications
There is a strong historical precedent for the ‘conscious uncoupling’ of the Sussexes
The worst hangovers in culture
Rest assured that these types had it considerably worse than you, says Alexander Larman
Thespians in the woods
Alexander Larman explains how pantomime went upmarket
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
