Gyles Brandreth
Where there’s a Will…
If plum roles started being handed out on the random basis of “artistic merit”, anarchy would surely reign…
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
