Kenneth Williams
In defence of reading diaries
We experience people at their most depressed and their most joyful; their most selfish and their most generous
“Between you and me…”
Our theatre gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
