PG Wodehouse
Why update PG Wodehouse?
Cynically timed for Christmas, celebrity authors have reimagined the classic characters
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Coups and coronets
The return of the radical and the ridiculous
The enduring appeal of Jeeves and Wooster
Ben Schott’s new novel is hugely welcome, but thankfully it will never threaten to obscure the genius of the canon
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
Taylor’s Version of feminism
Taylor Swift’s marriage is less a retreat from feminism than its logical conclusion
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Not mad for it
I Puritani, Royal Opera, Covent Garden
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again