Elizabeth Taylor
Should young actors copy Richard Burton?
His remarkable and unpredictable talent would be hard to pull off today
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
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
We must end the tyranny of the Treasury
Short-term and parochial thinking has made us weaker and less safe
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.