Stephen Merchant
20 years of The Ricky Gervais Show
Ricky Gervais’s best comedy survives by fans swapping bootlegged recordings
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Parable of the talent
Was there ever a more dispiriting line-up of Scrooges than those offered to festive audiences in 2024?
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
