Televised Press Conferences
Shining limelight upon twilight?
Daily televised press conferences are a gift to the media class not to government
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead