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
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango