Ken Dodd
Beyond the floppy fringe
It’s no laughing matter that our grotesque, contemptible political class is so out of touch
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
The right does not need religion
We should not mourn the end of the Quiet Revival
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening