Gyles Brandreth
King-sized ambition
The kind of revisionism to be expected from a northern bore
Gyles Brandreth’s bon mots
An obsession with linguistic and historical marginalia has infected British culture
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
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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
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent