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
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
Keep calm and le Carré on
His pessimism about Britain proved untrue — and its own kind of comforting fantasy
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
The dark horse of Durban
The work of Roy Campbell does not deserve to be ignored
How gender identity hurt women in Argentina
Argentinian women need refuges — but only for women
Murders for August
From killers down under to death across the pond
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
The mean queens of the book world
A rare case of a “progressive” employee facing consequences will not change the publishing industry
“Social justice” is damaging education
Teaching is in danger of degenerating into indoctrination
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
The spectre of dissent
Authoritarian impulses have taken root in the British state, as Keir Starmer continues to crack down on speech online
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
