David Gauke
The smugness of pseudo-centrism
Betware of those who dress their preferences up as simple realism
The future of One Nation Conservatism
The older generation has jumped ship – just as liberal Conservatism’s moment has come
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
