Kenneth Branagh
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
All mouth, no trousers?
Kenneth Branagh does seem to like taking his clothes off
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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The return of a luxury lingerie brand
La Perla isn’t about the male gaze; it’s about feminine feel
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules