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
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Anti-Christian persecution is an international problem
Britain should use its diplomatic influence to help
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Should you really admit to regretting having kids?
Lamenting parenthood creates a psychological trap
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
