Billingham is tight-lipped about his time in the SAS. His work afterwards provides the funniest anecdotes

Sontag’s influential pieces are rather fewer than this book’s breezeblock dimensions might suggest

As usual, the Academy flagellates itself over insufficient African American Oscar contenders

Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough

The piecemeal constitutional “reforms” of the last 20 years fall on the liberal side and the results have been predictably disastrous

Marcus Walker laments the new antisemitism

Julie Bindel on how transgender ideologists are winning the battle for media hearts and minds

Neither Roy Jenkins nor Enoch Powell became prime minister, but they are our two most influential postwar politicians

He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union

The way forward is clear: we need another Constitutional Reform Act, writes Joshua Rozenberg