Stephen Merchant
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
