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
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Immigration restrictionists need more honest arguments
Our debates are side-stepping fundamental questions of morality
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Who’s ready for the Equality Levy?
Birmingham’s bankruptcy is a portrait of Britain’s future
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
