Comedy
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Comedy weapons programme
This week’s PMQs featured a heroic backbencher and the controlled detonation of a Labour-designed joke so dreary it may yet violate several international conventions.
British comedy can’t keep up with the modern world
The return of the Mock the Week is strange and sad
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
A nostalgic Scottish Christmas
Comfort and Joy is a feel-good film in dark times
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy