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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling