Gerald Barry
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
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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
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
The paté of the Land
Chinese water deer, partridges and paté
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.