Comedy
Now then, now then
Should there be a new drama about Jimmy Savile?
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
Sean Lock – the comedian’s comedian
Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”
Rosie Cackle
Veteran comedienne
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Bring back the fun!
Alexander Larman writes an open letter to the artistic directors of theatres
A tasty tester for a better year
The Comeback is a gutsy British response to a period of glum hardship
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers
Judah Friedlander Live!
In his perversity, absurdity, and bleakness, Friedlander taps the mood of American politics now
Miserable minimalism
Lisa Hilton says a prime spot near the kitchen is no compensation for a bewilderingly bad evening
The Diary of Dilyn the Dog
As told to Robert Hutton
The meaning of life
Many find theology dusty, but McGrath makes a pitch for it as the centre of our world
Monuments to victory and loss
This is a beautifully illustrated, handsomely printed and thorough, scholarly exposition of the triumphal arch
What now for Britain’s armed forces?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the future role of Britain’s armed forces
The millennial’s guide to feminism
Julie Bindel’s new book rescues modern feminism from its failings
Quackery via cartography
You better believe the earth is flat
Why my case is carrying on
This is just the beginning
Redefining the rule of law
How much will MPs allow the Lord Chancellor to “rebalance” the constitution?
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book