Alexander Larman

Donald Trump has taken pity on Prince Harry

9 February 2025 10:40 pm

Say what you like about President Trump – and people very much do – but there is little doubt that,…

Meghan Markle’s tone-deaf wildfire video is hard to stomach

5 February 2025 9:56 pm

The recent fires in California have had many tragic effects. Many have lost their homes, possessions and livelihoods, and it…

Kate Middleton must not become the new Diana

31 January 2025 9:23 pm

In the inimitable words of The Smiths (or, indeed, Carry On Cleo, where they borrowed it from), stop me if…

Don’t get your hopes up for a WH Smith revival

27 January 2025 6:34 pm

The news that the high street arm of the newsagent WH Smith is in ‘secret talks’ to be sold –…

The self-serving delusions of the ‘Swastika Kaiser’

25 January 2025 9:00 am

With the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II decided he was best off allying himself with the Nazis, and seeing what he could obtain for his family in the process

Prince Harry has won a Pyrrhic victory over the Sun

22 January 2025 11:13 pm

So, in the end, Prince Harry folded. His much-ballyhooed case about News Group Newspapers, publishers of the Sun, which was…

What made David Lynch cool

18 January 2025 5:00 pm

When one of your favourite filmmakers dies, it is hard not to feel a deeply personal sense of loss; the…

The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton

15 January 2025 10:27 pm

It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made…

The Sussexes’ tone deaf attack on Meta

14 January 2025 5:20 pm

Who do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex think they are? Since their quasi-abdication from the royal family five years…

Brace yourselves for Meghan Markle’s comeback

2 January 2025 6:45 pm

As many of us lurched blearily into 2025, desperately trying to remember how, exactly, we’d managed to cause offence to…

This has been an awful year for the royals

26 December 2024 11:38 pm

At the beginning of King Charles’s Christmas speech this year, viewers may have been surprised when he did not immediately…

Is Paris the world’s most bookish city?

26 December 2024 8:55 pm

After I ventured to New York in May 2024, bound for a discerning literary journey round the city’s bookshops, libraries…

Beware the middle of Lidl

26 December 2024 4:30 pm

If you’re a regular, or even an occasional, customer at Lidl, you’ll know what to expect. Own-brand foodstuffs that shamelessly…

Why the King’s speech still matters

25 December 2024 4:20 pm

Later today, the King will address the nation, as he has annually since he acceded the throne in September 2022.…

King Charles has a long road to recovery ahead

20 December 2024 8:44 pm

At the end of what has undoubtedly been a true annus horribilis for the monarchy, King Charles, at least, seems…

The Royals should ban Andrew from Christmas

16 December 2024 8:55 pm

Sixty years ago, in the aftermath of one of the twentieth century’s most salacious scandals, the former MP John Profumo…

Prince Andrew’s Chinese ‘spy’ blunder is no surprise

13 December 2024 10:18 pm

It is fair to say that Prince Andrew has always had poor taste in friends. Notoriously, and reputation-shreddingly, he consorted…

Does David Beckham really deserve a knighthood?

6 December 2024 4:30 pm

Sir David Beckham. Sir Goldenballs. Once upon a time, when Beckham was in his sarong-wearing Nineties heyday, the idea of…

Was the Emir of Qatar’s visit a good idea?

4 December 2024 4:53 am

As the first day of the Emir of Qatar’s state visit to Britain draws to a close, all those involved…

The new Jaguar is spectacularly hideous

3 December 2024 7:46 pm

Winston Churchill reputedly said ‘Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.’ This adage must have…

Shutting Smithfield shows a reckless disregard for London’s history

27 November 2024 6:07 pm

Virtually every aspect of London has changed beyond recognition in the past nine hundred years, but there has been one…

A century of Hollywood’s spectacular flops

23 November 2024 9:00 am

From D.W. Griffiths’s 1916 epic Intolerance to Tom Hooper’s hilariously misjudged Cats, 26 films provide cautionary examples of mega-budget hubris

What on earth is Jaguar thinking?

20 November 2024 9:48 pm

Along with Aston Martin and Rolls Royce, Jaguar is, for most people, one of the great British blue chip motoring…

The Royal Family must be careful with Kate

10 November 2024 11:23 pm

If this year’s Remembrance Sunday was unusually affecting, it was in large part due to the presence of both the…

It’s hard not to feel sorry for Prince William

8 November 2024 9:40 pm

For all his wealth and privilege, it is hard to imagine wanting to be Prince William. Not only was he…