Robert Meakin
Robert Meakin is a writer and longtime newspaper diarist
Steve Coogan and the phantom of Sellers
Denied the chance to play his comedy idol in a biopic, the Alan Partridge star has found another way
Otherworldly talents
Long live the golden age of British television, when great actors imbued classic roles with risky, multifaceted complexity
Tragic hero of Drury Lane
This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
