Ralph Fiennes
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes, Four Quartets and the future of theatre
It’s impossible to hear Eliot’s meditations and not be reminded of our current national ordeal
Duchess of Grub St.
I’m delighted that Meghan Markle has decided to stop causing controversy and embark on the more sedate pursuit of a literary career
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
Brave new world or fools’ paradise?
For Dubai’s quarter of a million British expats, the Iran war is a mere blip in a luxurious lifestyle
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
