Results for "simon evans"
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
The meaning of laughs
In praise of Douglas Adams, a comedy legend
The sacredness of sounds
A fascinating new book explores the transcendent qualities of sound
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
GB News must save itself from itself
The channel can do important work if it gets out of its own way
The climate lobby is losing control
The public is turning against the consequences of a reckless green agenda
Jerry Seinfeld is wrong about comedy
Wokeness has exacerbated the decline of sitcoms and stand-up, but it is not the cause
A straightforward triumph
Mary Page Marlowe is a subtle, elliptical and affecting piece of work. Cyrano de Bergerac is straightforwardly a triumph
How Net Zero is weakening the West
Statecraft takes steel, not just high-minded aspirations
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
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.
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans