Obituary
Remembering Norm Macdonald
Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning
The last Everly brother
Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died
Charlie Watts: an unlikely rock star
The drummer of the Rolling Stones — a man of rare class, wit and distinction — has died at the age of 80
Austin Mitchell: Always independent
The former Grimsby MP who championed Brexit long before it was popular
Sean Lock – the comedian’s comedian
Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”
Richard Donner: an underrated director
Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate
Once a newspaperman
The true legacy of John Kay
The finest actress of her generation
How Helen McCrory blazed through her life and career like a comet
Leading the good life
Peter Ainsworth 1956-2021
The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff
The notorious fraudster Bernie Madoff has died in prison at the age of 82
Ignoring race won’t help anything
The dangers of pathological altruism
Food chains
Dimbleby seems to wants to make it harder for some to eat at all
Politics is a game of two halves
The Euros – politics by other means
Uncertain times in Labour’s rugby league heartlands
The Labour Party and Rugby League have been central to the lives of working-class people in Batley for over a century. But for how much longer?
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
Erno von Dohnanyi: My auntie (Capriccio)
Dohnanyi is as multicultural as they come — he must be due a comeback
Pressure baby
If anyone is going to be over-cautious about vaccines, it’s pregnant women
Funny old priorities
Why did Sarah Hussein’s death not attract anything like the interest in Sarah Everard?
Another Boris and me
Boris Yeltsin’s path to the end of the Soviet Union, and the dawn of a new Russia that led, unerringly, to the despotic power we see today
The American nightmare
San Francisco should serve as a cautionary tale as to what can happen when “progressive” far-left ideology dominates politics