Comedy
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
The meaning of laughs
In praise of Douglas Adams, a comedy legend
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
From TV to the trans debate (w/ Graham Linehan)
Why truth and honour matter more than a quiet life
Cheers, Frasier
A comedy classic makes a triumphant return
Tough crowd, tough man
What has Graham Linehan learned about television and trangenderism?
From slobs to royalty
How the Royle Family mirrored working class life
Militant humourlessness
A pseudo-history of British comedy leaves one depressed
The sludge of sensitivity
Politics is degrading our cultural classics
Humphries and the humourless
Cancel culture is often midges biting giants
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
The dark future of free media in Europe
A French news channel has been fined for airing unchallenged negative views about migration and climate change
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
The Olympic boxing row isn’t just about sports
Men should be more sensitive towards female concerns about inequalities of strength
Turning shares into swords
The Church doesn’t invest in defence companies, but it prays you continue to do so
Corporations can become communities
Canary Wharf’s 8 Canada Square should be humanised
Duke of deception
Duke Wolff was a real life Gatsby, a brilliant, flamboyant faker whose lies left a legacy of both devastation and fascination for his children
How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
