Romeo Coates
Romeo Coates is a longtime actor, diarist and Cavalier. Friend and foe to the stars, he learnt the hard way years ago after "loaning" Richard Harris £25.
Old Romeo’s Almanac
Our theater gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors and gives us some predictions for the new year
“Between you and me…”
Our theatre gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
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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 radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
