Actors
Going viral
From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age
Perfect for the part
Oompa Loompas and a newfound enthusiasm for association football
Coles to Newcastle
Showbiz vicars, lefty luvvies and a brush with death
Counterfeit Cleese
Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole
Infra digs
Near death experiences, rising stars and cut-throat dopplegangers
Soon to be pulped non-fiction
Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Royal blush
Boycotting the Crown and handbags at dusk
Phantom on the Piccadilly Line
See it, say it, haunted
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The government is failing Northern Ireland
Its reputation will be stained forever by the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Parliamentary sovereignty (extreme edition)
Rwanda is safe. How do we know? Because we said so.
