Comedy
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Peston’s inbox
Kemi wants a correction, and Keir could appear on celebrity TV
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Sinn Féin sullied the cenotaph
Apologists for terrorism should have had nothing to do with Remembrance Sunday
