Humour
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?
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Twitter monetisation was a mistake
It has diminished rather than enhanced creativity
