Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
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
Infra digs
Near death experiences, rising stars and cut-throat dopplegangers
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
The judge’s verdict
Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing
Low energy
Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride are inconsistent while Reform are invisible
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Sundown on Sandown
How can we save British seaside towns?
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul