Tuppence Middleton
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
A worthy but deeply flawed attack on woke
A distinct lack of charity when evaluating the motivations and goals of others
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
An Oxford arriviste
Shades of Brideshead and Saltburn at an unconvincing “classy” Oxford restaurant
Medieval treasures of Germany
Aachen and the great temples of medieval Europe seem like vast spiritual power stations
