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Hard Labour
Industrial scale drinking, courting communists and winning the “Golden Bollock”
The detective who knew too much
Ian Thomson delves into the most-investigated unsolved killing in British history as the investigation report was finally released on 15 June
Click all about it!
How has political reporting changed in the last twenty years, and is it all for the worse?
Elegant defender of lost causes
Daniel Johnson recalls the colourful life of Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
Still fit to print?
The rise and fall of the British newspaper
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
