Oscar Wilde
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
A failed Oscar Wilde
The rise and fall of Milo Yiannopoulos
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
The tragic downfall of Lord Alfred Douglas
The 20th-anniversary edition of Douglas Murray’s Bosie remains the seminal account of the tragic life of Lord Alfred Douglas
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
