Intellectual wits like P J O’Rourke are rare birds these days

University Challenge host Bamber Gascoigne was the quintessential Englishman

Ten years on from Hitchens’s death, the past seems more foreign than ever

Tom Sutcliffe’s obituary of composer Stephen Sondheim was ill-judged and vindictive

The Heywood Hill bookseller has died

The man who made libertarianism fun

Powell’s real legacy was Barack Obama

Well loved by Commons staff and MPs alike

Like Peter Cook, he made being funny seem as natural as yawning

Don Everly’s death officially marks the day the music died