Goodbye, Harry and Meghan
A shade over three decades ago, Gary Barlow and Take That sang “Whatever I said, I didn’t mean it, I…
Should Buckingham Palace reveal more about Charles’s cancer?
King Charles is currently on his summer holiday in Balmoral. After the stresses and difficulties of the past few months…
What happened to Will Self?
It is usually taken as a given, for better or worse, that the Grand Old Men of English letters tend…
A heady cocktail of coquetry and extortion: The Millionaire Waltz, by Anthony Quinn, reviewed
Edie Greenlaw, model, actress and socialite in 1920s London, is drawn into a case of homosexual blackmail after trying to help a friend
Amanda Knox should not do comedy
I am a great believer that there should be no unbroachable topic in comedy, as long as the person broaching…
Is this the end of Argos?
It seems incredible, in the year of our lord 2026, that Argos still exists. And no, I don’t mean Odysseus’…
There’s only one reason Meghan Markle went on MasterChef Australia
Picture the scene. You have bravely battled onto the set of MasterChef Australia, hoping that your strawberry pavlova or similar hero dish…
Will Burnham and the King get on?
Now that Britain’s latest prime minister has gone through the ritual of ‘kissing hands’ with the monarch – these days,…
Prince Harry has lost his most high-stakes gamble
It was always going to go this way. Every gambler eventually loses, and the higher profile that loss, the greater…
Kate Middleton is the royal family’s best ambassador
If you had been queuing up to buy tickets at Wimbledon yesterday, then you might have been forgiven for doubting…
Why shouldn’t Queen Camilla meet J.K. Rowling?
One of the many likeable characteristics of Queen Camilla is that she has a clear, full-throated passion for literature. She…
Britain won’t mind if Meghan stays away
If you wanted to contrast the public lives of the two warring sides of the Royal Family, last weekend gave…
Is King Charles really being open about his finances?
When it was announced that King Charles was going to become the first monarch in history to release details of…
Rosamund Pike was right to berate her phone-using audience
Many people find the idea of actors breaking the fourth wall while on stage mortifying. As such, they will react…
Did Andrew need to charge his Royal Lodge tenants full rent?
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was photographed driving yesterday with a large bruise on his face. Whichever unfortunate ‘well-placed source’ that has the…
AI Ozzy Osbourne is a terrible idea
If you were one of the millions of Ozzy Osbourne fans who mourned the death of the Black Sabbath frontman…
Why did the Queen push for Andrew to become a trade envoy?
The Andrew formerly known as “Prince” was always supposedly his mother’s favorite child. He had a degree of indulgence paid…
How Disney spoiled Star Wars
This week, the new Star Wars movie – the first live action film since 2019’s commercially successful but largely ridiculed…
Joe Biden’s memoir will humiliate him
Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. For…
Should the Princess Diana tapes be released?
As King Charles returns to Britain this weekend, secure in the knowledge that his state visit to the United States…
Was King Charles’s Congress speech a success?
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to…
Gordon Ramsay and the tyranny of the restaurant service charge
The news that Gordon Ramsay – that most self-publicising of restaurateurs – has increased service charges at his Lucky Cat…
What Prince Harry has in common with Boris Johnson
It has, on balance, been one of Prince Harry’s busier fortnights in recent times. As if to upstage his father’s…
Russell Brand is everything that is wrong with the world
There are few stranger public careers than that of Russell Brand, the former “comedian” turned MAGA cheerleader-in-chief. He has given…
Has Andrew tarnished Queen Elizabeth’s legacy?
Today marks the centenary of Elizabeth II’s birth. Less than four years after she died, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch is still…
