Pantomime
Why drag is not the same as pantomime
In pantomime, we know that people are pretending
Thespians in the woods
Alexander Larman explains how pantomime went upmarket
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
End of the Biden farce?
The President’s fragility has been obvious for years — but was he ever in control?
