Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
No golden years
A tragedy in four words: Baby Boomer, still working
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
Going viral
From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
