Fawlty Towers
Resurrecting the great British sitcom
We are getting dangerously close to saying British sitcom itself should be off limits
“Will you stop talking about the war!”
Are we watching a Stalinist show trial, with hitherto dissident figures loudly recanting any support for past regimes?
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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
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
What if the AI bubble bursts?
Arguing that an AI bubble is a good thing reeks of techno-optimist complacency