Ian McKellen
Why I “took the knee”
Following a brief loss of balance in a London watering hole I ‘took the knee’ – but that doesn’t detract from the symbolism
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
Why I’m no longer talking to black people about race
The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry
Class matters: why rugby league players don’t receive knighthoods
Despite a mass public campaign, Kevin Sinfield hasn’t received a knighthood this year. It comes as no surprise to rugby league fans
Best of the year that was
Put down the pandemic novels: Here’s my favourite fiction of 2020
Biden’s brave new world
As we move into 2021, Biden’s message resounds throughout our new woke empire
Bored to tiers
Alice Cockerell proposes a drinking game to help deal with those who can’t stop talking about Covid-19
What Boris Johnson told the ’22
Digs at Nicola Sturgeon and an end to lockdown “before the tulip season is over”
Does history have meaning?
Graham Stewart talks to Professor Jeremy Black about whether the past can be a servant to the present
Hail to the Chief (Part III)
Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president was exercised in the first half of the twentieth century, from Teddy Roosevelt to FDR
Fundragers splash the cash
The money being poured into US elections is soaring – but it’s often wasted
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”