Between the cerebral and the warm
University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne was the quintessential Englishman
Sock it to ‘em
Omicron-cancelled events and surprised marionettes
Blackwell’s: an undesirable new chapter?
The sale of the bookshop is not a good omen for the book industry
What might have been: an alternative Boris interview
Extreme wealth, Netflix fame, and a completed Shakespeare biography
A fond farewell to Barry Cryer
His death is a loss for the English comic tradition
All mouth, no trousers?
Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off
The rise of meta-horror
In 2022, a new Scream film must face down more than monsters
Chamberlain’s fictional rehabilitation
Netflix’s sympathetic take on the great appeaser is ultimately unconvincing
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
The darkness of assisted dying
The desire to end terrible pain is understandable — but the dangers are severe
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
