James Bond
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Blowing with the wind
This humble character actor pledges unwavering allegiance to whatever comes next
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?
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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
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival