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
Most Read
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Populism in its purest form
Nigel Farage is rallying his voters to defend his right not to be asked inconvenient questions about his money
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
