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
Infra digs
Near death experiences, rising stars and cut-throat dopplegangers
The madding crowd
Drunks, dames and Dahl
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Royal blush
Boycotting the Crown and handbags at dusk
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
Cast asunder
No country for old drunk actors?
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
