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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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
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
The problem with price freezes
Freezing prices is not half as simple (or cheap) as politicians often think
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?