Playwright
Arnold Leverett: Veteran Playwright
If the theatres staging his work are getting smaller, the list of his celebrity admirers is still extensive
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action