Parkinsons
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
