Comedy
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Lily Phillips and the importance of feeling
We must remain sensitive to unspoken pain
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates