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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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Oldham, new problems
How changing demographics have reshaped culture and politics in Greater Manchester
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate