Comedy
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
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
Most Read
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
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty