Billboards
Don’t ban the billboards
Campaigns against advertising are pure public health fanaticism
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
