Samuel Beckett
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
August/September 2021: Letters to the Editor
Samuel Beckett is at his best when he’s being brief
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Lockdown III – how will it end?
Why most Tory lockdown sceptics have not opposed the new lockdown
Waiting for normal
Why lockdown is the perfect time to read Samuel Beckett
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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?