Fame
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The art of literary celebrity
How do writers become more than their books?
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
Charley Coutts: celebrity interviewer
From Nick Cage to De Niro
Cast asunder
No country for old drunk actors?
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state