Actors
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
Charley Coutts: celebrity interviewer
From Nick Cage to De Niro
Cast asunder
No country for old drunk actors?
Love’s labourers lost
Romeo finds himself overcome by a sense of utter hopelessness
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp