Comedy
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
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
Now then, now then
Should there be a new drama about Jimmy Savile?
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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
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture