Showbusiness
Three act tragedy
The Wagatha Christie case reveals the addictive fun of gossip — but also its corrosive power
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Guardrails of civilisation
If politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the campus
Life as a lonely quadrant voter
Who should you vote for if you lean left economically and right culturally?
Big beasts versus the Bible
Darwin sidelined the Creator by documenting the slow mechanisms of evolution
The rise and fall of Rishi
Exceptional good fortune met common mediocrity
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit
Strawberry fields? Never
The idea of toughening zoomers up with hard labour is a pointless fantasy
Just stop
A new wave of disruptive protest is openly criminal, yet is minimally policed. It is time to say enough — and ban them all
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?