Humour
Amanda Scrimgeour: Glamour hound
Some people are born to rake over the coals of ancient scandals
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?
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Save St John’s Voices
The glorious tradition of British choral singing should be defended
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
