Nigel Havers
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
Irish Gothic and Noel Coward romance on the stage, and remembering actress Hayden Gywnne
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
The return of Spencerian liberalism
Richard Hanania is a figure of fun for many, but he represents a broader return to liberalism’s sinister origins
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
