AA Gill
AA Gill wouldn’t have a hope in hell of winning his own award
Gill was one of the last of a breed of writers who wrote without looking over his shoulder
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
A passionate battler for buildings
A manichaean choice between the organic adaptation of old buildings and the beauty of the new
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked