Comedians
The Riyadh Comedy Festival is a bad joke
Comedians should not agree not to insult the powerful
The irresistible rise of the lolcows
Why are British political podcasts dominated by failed politicians and establishment journalists?
Steve Coogan and the phantom of Sellers
Denied the chance to play his comedy idol in a biopic, the Alan Partridge star has found another way
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
The myth of the Larrikin
Barry Humphries was of a more relaxed time
Infra digs
Near death experiences, rising stars and cut-throat dopplegangers
The game of laughter
A backstage look at stand-up comedy
The comedy of inclusive disrespect
Laughter can unite us
The most pretentious edgelord
Lancing a Boyle
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake