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
Perfect for the part
Oompa Loompas and a newfound enthusiasm for association football
Coles to Newcastle
Showbiz vicars, lefty luvvies and a brush with death
Counterfeit Cleese
Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole
Boom time
The burdens of being a national treasure, treacherous boy wizards and neglected English roses
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
Repent, Richard Holden
The Conservative Party needs to hold itself to account
Turn down that bloody music
Historic occasions shouldn’t be ruined by narcissistic prats
Starmer the farmer
The Labour battle bus rolls into bucolic England
Starmer and the blob
The Conservatives must focus on our constitutional order
The Road to the Cass Review — (3) Sue and Marcus Evans
What went wrong at the Tavistock Centre, and why
The secret diary of a parly staffer
Time to find something more productive for mediocre graduates to do
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
The slow death of public spaces
Pointless regulations are sucking joy from British life
Say it ain’t so, Joe
How democratic is a shadowy cabal conspiring to hide the fact that Biden is too frail to govern?
