Ricky Gervais
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
You can criticise comedy without cancelling it
Ricky Gervais should ask himself who he is satirising and why
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Religion is here to stay
A new spirit of confidence and fearlessness characterises those who continue to believe
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
Art sales slump
Real world issues have quenched the post-COVID euphoria
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
