David Suchet
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details