In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The meaning of laughs
In praise of Douglas Adams, a comedy legend
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand