Comedy
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
The myth of the Larrikin
Barry Humphries was of a more relaxed time
On thin ice
Toxic WhatsApp chats and chalet chauvinism
In Sunak’s house are many rooms
But it might be a tight squeeze
Unpeeling The Onion
How politics kills humour
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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
The Bible in the dock
Free speech for Christians is still under assault
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state