Results for "simon evans"
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Heavy weights and hurty words
Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
The meaning of laughs
In praise of Douglas Adams, a comedy legend
On pretending to have read books
It is an art in itself
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Risk your neck, save your soul
Against the sterility of safetyism
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
