20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
How we killed ideas and kept impressions
We have to rediscover ideas and not just the idea of ideas
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
The Age of Twee
Line up and clap for the NHS, wankpuffin
