Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
Self-inflicted misery
Super troupers
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
21st century villains
The Walliams dilemma
King-sized ambition
The kind of revisionism to be expected from a northern bore
Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
Pirate of the Caribbean
The world of cruise ship entertainment was traditionally the domain of the middle-ranking theatrical
Ozempic games
Corpulent comrades have singularly failed to play the persecuted minority card
Why so many Northerners?
Callously relegated to Norway in October, one should be “grateful for the fjords” apparently
Blowing with the wind
This humble character actor pledges unwavering allegiance to whatever comes next
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Britain in 1776
What does it mean to be living through history?
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants