Glenda Jackson
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?