Humour
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
Last laugh
Intellectual wits like P J O’Rourke are rare birds these days
Fart for art’s sake
A not-so-fond farewell to the “sophomoric male”, the man-child purveyor of infantile humour
Bring back bawdiness
Bawdy humour and the pantomime go together like sausages and mash, whatever you make of that banger
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
I miss the Simon Ravens
Twinkly-eyed twentieth century mischief makers have crashed out of fashion
A game of thrones
Shelley Puhak’s woman-versus-woman rivalry between queens is only part of the story
Can Ncuti Gatwa save a tired franchise?
The new Dr Who is timely, not tokenistic
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Tortured hero of the Giro
The Italian rapscallion
Donald Trump’s teachable moments
What lessons should today’s conservatives take from Trump?
We mustn’t repeal the Human Rights Act
The European Court of Human Rights is a necessary check against authoritarianism
Allan Pettersson: Barefoot songs (BIS)
Sweden scorned the composer who could have been its greatest
Boris will be Boris … again
How to end up a happy ex-prime minister
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”