Comedy
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
Tinker, Tailor, Rayner, Raab
From Lebedev to Corbyn — Tories and Labour trade blows on the company they have kept
Not sorry they haven’t a clue
Panel show politics suits the Prime Minister more than his Home Secretary
Dr Gabriella Onan: Sex Historian
The straight-faced and straight-laced archaeologist of smut
Joie de vivre
Has the National Theatre brought back fun?
Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
Russians … thousands of them!
Labour goes bear hunting for oligarchs
Apoca-Liz Now
How I learned to stop worrying and love the gaffs
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
