Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
Lucien Grote: Experimental Playwright
Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse
Rosie Cackle
Veteran comedienne
Goodbye to the Blonds
The generation of idiosyncratic proprietors who changed the face of the British book industry
Etta Parsloe
Twitter vigilante
Max & Heidi Whitlow
Round Robiners
Julien Spirtle
Comeback Kid
Terry Rant
Ageing controversialist
Bunty Malone
Best-selling novelist
Cheryl Partington
Media Don
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Explaining reality to Ed Miliband
You can’t ban baking and eat cake
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
