Celebrity
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
Cast asunder
No country for old drunk actors?
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Retail politics
Beware a politician who has a book to sell
Sheikh up the Telegraph
We are fortunate that the UAE still wishes to invest in so unstable a country
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
