Mel Brooks
Everything is showbiz
There is something heroic about getting big, guilty laughs out of the most offensive subjects imaginable
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
The RAM should face the music
Why the Royal Academy of Music shuts of pupils from private schools