Alan Titchmarsh
Why update PG Wodehouse?
Cynically timed for Christmas, celebrity authors have reimagined the classic characters
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Beyond Carmen
Georges Bizet: The piano works (Hyperion)
The Ghost Dance of Rejoin
There is no real argument for rejoining the EU — and nobody makes one
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes