Celebrity
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Remembering troublesome women
In death and in life
What’s in a nym?
How and why writers conceal their true selves
The madding crowd
Drunks, dames and Dahl
My perfect castaway
Robin Ashenden whiled away a forced sojourn in Georgia by feasting on the back catalogue of Desert Island Discs and compiling a list of his favourite guests
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Why Khan’t our media do its job?
Piers Morgan shouldn’t have been soft on the former Pakistan PM
The Internet is real life
There is no firm divide between the mainstream and the online
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
Charley Coutts: celebrity interviewer
From Nick Cage to De Niro
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
