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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
