Comedy
Beyond a joke
Boris Johnson took my job
Big Dog is in the picture again
Scotland Yard is on the case of the beast of Bullingdon
The Bard of Balliol
Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account
How do you solve a problem like Boris?
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
A fond farewell to Barry Cryer
His death is a loss for the English comic tradition
Sideline Sunak
The Chancellor does not want the ball
I miss the old BBC
The BBC has lost its way and things have to change
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
They’re not trans activists; they’re Chris Morris fans
A group of bitter wannabes have been targeting me for fifteen years
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
