Romeo Coates
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Acute accents
Honours, parties and the case for jailing Brian Blessed
Ken’s troubles
The modern theatrical world isn’t kind to its older actors
Grasping the nettle
Romeo runs into legal difficulties …
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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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 meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds and whites from the Bekaa valley
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off