Oscar Wilde
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
Pretty as peacocks
The dandy lives in contradiction — investing the superficial with extravagant seriousness
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
The gifts of gentle density
There are all but endless benefits to building more beautifully
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley