Norm Macdonald
Why politics kills comedy
It constrains humour or makes it complacent
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The masses against the classicists?
Reflections on the virtues and vices of academic gatekeeping
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The Blob playbook
How activist charities subtly shape policy
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on