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
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
All small talk
Dwarf uprisings, Daleks and disreputable handymen
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
How capitalism gave women leisure
Feminist anti-capitalists are spinning delusions about economic history
