Ian McKellen
Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
Afternoon delights
Alexander Larman reports from a half-liberated, half-imprisoned world
The undiscovered country
Ian McKellen’s Hamlet meets impossibly high expectations
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
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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
The (in)justice of the Equality Act
Far from guaranteeing equal treatment, the Equality Act has transformed Britain’s understanding of equality from individual rights to group identity
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
