Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor – a life lived with a giggle
Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Let’s start a cat flap
Why do cute predators get a pass from conservationists?
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)