Basil Fawlty
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Parents are being hypocritical about smartphones
Yes, kids use their phones too much, but what about adults?
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
The truth about London Bridge
Flawed narratives should not distort historical memory of the planning for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II