Karl Pilkington
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
The reality of the roads
Young men should be aware of the brutal realities of gang life
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The idea of the countryside Pt. 2
English rural life in theory and practice Pt. 2
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Gyles Brandreth’s bon mots
An obsession with linguistic and historical marginalia has infected British culture
