Results for "simon evans"
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Lies, damn lies
Statistics are an essentially alien language that humans did not evolve to recognise or understand
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
How Net Zero is weakening the West
Statecraft takes steel, not just high-minded aspirations
A straightforward triumph
Mary Page Marlowe is a subtle, elliptical and affecting piece of work. Cyrano de Bergerac is straightforwardly a triumph
Is there such a thing as right-wing comedy?
The issue of political balance in comedy is no laughing matter
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
How to save your parish church
Be the Church you want to see in the world
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma