Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
Film novelisations
On the ladder of literature, film novelisation was once considered above only pornography
Martin Scorsese: rinse and repeat self-indulgence
The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent
Size isn’t necessarily substance
Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under