The Chair Company is the workplace comedy we need right now
If you watched The Paper and, like most of its viewers, remained unimpressed by its comparatively limp updating of The…
What’s the point of remaking Amadeus?
At the close of Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning film, Amadeus, the central character, the terminally envious court composer Salieri, declares: ‘I…
No, Meghan: your Netflix deal isn’t a sign of ‘strength’
The Duchess of Sussex has been largely absent from the public eye since the release of the second series of…
Will the Epstein files ever stop haunting Prince Andrew?
It has not been a good year to be the Duke of York. Firstly, Andrew Lownie’s devastating joint biography of…
Diane Keaton was a true original
The death of the actress Diane Keaton at the age of 79 was greeted with an understandable mixture of sadness…
Why does Jared Leto still have a career?
This weekend, Tron: Ares releases across US cinemas, and is expected to make a decent, rather than record-setting, amount of…
How the Royals jumped on the Mental Health Day bandwagon
Whether you consider World Mental Health Day an important and necessary means of drawing attention to often overlooked issues, or…
Will Dwayne Johnson always be The Rock?
Over the past couple of weeks, two expensive, auteur-driven films with big stars have been released at the American box…
Prince Harry’s white saviour complex has been dealt another blow
You’ve got to feel sorry for Prince Harry. After some of the best headlines he’s had in years during his…
Has Taylor Swift lost it?
The Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant once remarked that every successful musician has what he called ‘an imperial phase’, during…
What can we expect from the Simpsons sequel?
It is now more than three decades since President Bush the First declared that American families should be “more like…
Is Greggs losing its way?
For many, it is hard to overstate the appeal of Greggs, one of those rare high street chains that provides…
Patricia Routledge was the model great British thespian
It is the fate of any actor or actress who is inextricably associated with one major role that, when they…
Does Prince William need to ‘change’ the British monarchy?
Of all the people who might be expected to get revelatory public comments out of the Prince of Wales, the…
Harry and Charles’s ‘reunion’ will never be free from sabotage
There has been a recurring theme when it comes to meetings between the Duke of Sussex and his now estranged…
The Hack is proof Jack Thorne needs a break
When ITV executives commissioned The Hack, the new drama series dealing with the News International phone hacking scandal, they surely…
Time for the House of York to fall
It is tempting to imagine Prince Andrew and his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson enduring a mutually resentful existence in Royal Lodge. Like an aristocratic version…
Starbucks has lost its cool
The news that the once-beloved, now-beleaguered coffee chain Starbucks is to fire nearly a thousand staff and close dozens of…
You can’t get rid of Kanye West
Amid the hullaballoo that surrounded Charlie Kirk’s memorial service last weekend, seemingly virtually every figure associated in any way with…
The end of Fergie
Sarah ‘Fergie’ Ferguson, the beleaguered Duchess of York, has finally met her reputational Waterloo. Despite showily cutting off all contact…
Jason Bateman breaks bad in Black Rabbit
When Bryan Cranston staggered on-screen in the opening scene of Breaking Bad in 2008, stumbling out of a crashed RV…
Is Prince Harry angling for a royal return?
Royalist or republican, you have to feel some sympathy for King Charles. In the past ten days alone, not only…
How the Princess of Wales bonded with Melania Trump
President Trump arrives back in the United States today, and Keir Starmer will have returned to 10 Downing Street breathing…
Don’t cry for Jimmy Kimmel
The defenestration of the supposed talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, for the inflammatory remarks that he made during the monologue…
Trump’s state visit could not be going better
So, the Donald was on his best behavior after all. There had been rumours flying around that President Trump would…
