ASA
Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
Our offended selves
Subjective, judge-diagnosed feelings cannot be the basis for law
Do we really need so many stage adaptations of novels?
There’s much that can go wrong when the drama of a book is transferred to the stage
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners
We have forgotten the titans of British cinema
It has fallen to Scorsese to rescue the reputation of Powell and Pressburger
An unaccustomed wine
30 years ago English wine was changed forever, and a vinicultural revolution began
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
Women’s rights shouldn’t be up for debate
MPs need to stop questioning the rights of biological women
Sounds and sweet airs
Classical music is flourishing in Britain — though if you listened to our cultural elite you’d never know it
Whitehall shirks the blame game
Are civil servants the blameless dupes of “partygate”?
Class viewing
The contrast between the lives of the boxers in “Fight School” and those portrayed in “Anatomy of A Scandal” could not be sharper