Peter O’Toole
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Why we don’t police anti-Christian hate
Jewish and Muslim communities rightly get protections and attention from the government — but Christians are routinely overlooked
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Vibe supremacy
The right has a coolness problem, and Ben Shapiro rapping is not going to help
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The Roman Republic is worth thinking about
The life and death of Tiberius Gracchus illustrate the virtues of populism
Sunak, false equivalence and the phantom far right
There is no comparison between the threat of Islamism and the threat of the far right
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
How the Ukraine delusion may end
Biden might entertain peace to cut his losses and boost his election chances
