Gossip
Concern grows over Hugh Bonneville
And Piers Brosnan’s Irish accent leaves something to be desired
“Community”
Am I really part of the EasyJet community?
Fact or Fiction: an introductory guide
As the misrepresentations in The Crown call for historical dramas to be clearer in their creative license, Romeo Coates offers a brieg guide to fact and fiction in drama
Lights, camera, chaos
Our board-treading gossip columnist grapples with actors on Zoom
Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?
Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip
Old Romeo’s Almanac
Our theater gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors and gives us some predictions for the new year
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
The establishment prefers distractions to solutions
Politicians discuss irrelevances rather than confronting the obvious
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda
The “hate crime” agenda is based on bad policing and worse politics
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
On the deceptive use of words
We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
