Armando Iannucci
Why politics kills comedy
It constrains humour or makes it complacent
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
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
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
The great HR survivors
As the DEI era fades, personnel heads live on as senior CEO consiglieri and hatchet-bearers
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Dangerous liasons
Does Keir Starmer have a plan for dealing with Donald Trump?