James Bond
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
Spilling the beans on the great spymasters
Fantasy is an essential part of what we are pleased to call reality
Rogues’ Gallery
Now that the BBC has a taste for turning its own scandals into prime time ratings, I’ve wasted no time pitching similarly eye-catching ideas
Licence to Chill
Boris’s Bond bombshell fails to detonate
Goodnight, Mr Bond
It’s time to let the man who saved the world, and the cinema, rest in peace.
007’s licence to thrill is renewed
‘No Time to Die’ suggests that Daniel Craig’s James Bond will be a hard act to follow
Double-oh dear
How can Keir Starmer want a female James Bond when he can’t even define what a woman is?
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
Sean Connery: the man beyond Bond
Who was the “real” Sean Connery?
No Time for Cinema to Die
What does the postponement of the new James Bond film mean for the future of cinema?
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
A matter of life and death
It is not the job of judges to tell someone that they are wrong for believing in life
Mental illness is more complex than we think
There are no easy answers when it comes to mental health
The “open borders experiment” is reversible
Keir Starmer can and should change the conditions by which migrants become eligible for Indefinite Leave To Remain status
Going Rogue
An interesting if unappealingly illustrated reassessment of a neglected style
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
