The ghastliness of Vivienne Westwood
Seeing the swathe of superlatives wheeled out about Vivienne Westwood after her death last year at the age of 81,…
Prince Harry’s book is a gift to the world
And still it keeps on coming. We had barely absorbed the first wave of revelations – jewellery mashed, dog bowls…
The trouble with Prince Harry
The promotional clip trailing Prince Harry’s upcoming interview – which has kicked off the publicity trail for his forthcoming memoir Spare –…
Why I’m giving up on diehard Remainers
What’s your New Year’s resolution? Eat less, move more? Or perhaps you’re a contrary cuss aiming to eat more and…
Nothing will ever be good enough for Harry and Meghan
Imagine you’ve paid good money to see a French farce – and halfway through, it turns into a Greek tragedy.…
The holy sinner
There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that…
Harry and Meghan want to destroy the House of Windsor
When I coined the phrase ‘The Grabdication’ in The Spectator two years ago, I had no concept of exactly how grasping the Duke and Duchess…
Balenciaga and fashion’s child sexualisation problem
For a long time now, high fashion – with the alibi of being ‘art’ – has tried on rape, self-harm, heroin-chic…
The empty Englishness of Love Actually
One of the pleasures of fiction, be it book or film, is that it can take us to actual places…
How Marks & Spencer spoiled Christmas
Working in a charity shop, where the Christmas cards go out in July, means I’m more aware than most how…
In praise of Just Stop Oil
As a child in the 1960s, all I wanted to do was get to London: to be rich and famous,…
Matt Hancock is perfect for ‘I’m A Celebrity…’
How can a man have such good and bad judgement? Matt Hancock’s wife is an absolute babe, but his career…
Whopping lie
Why are fat men seen as cuddly but fat women as a problem?
Cultural appropriation has killed modern music
It’s a rule of life that adults shouldn’t understand young people’s music, ever since Little Richard made the old folk…
How Rebekah Vardy went from underdog to ‘Cry-Bully’
It was Depp vs Heard and Best Of Breed at Crufts rolled into one: yes, the Wagatha Christie gravy-train came…
Anti heroes
Why this mad insistence that everyone has special powers?
This other Eden
Whatever one thinks of the government’s plans to send refugees to Rwanda, it was amusing to see this country’s left…
Why does the police force attract so many sex abusers?
Growing up, I didn’t really think about the police until I got caught shoplifting at the age of 14. Separated…
Where have all the Bad Girls gone?
Where have all the Bad Girls gone? They used to rock up regularly at the Love Island villa – now…
Glastonbury sums up everything there is to hate about rock music
‘Glasto’ – the diminutive makes me shiver with distaste; like ‘Peely’ – as his fans affectionately called the late DJ…
Kim Kardashian is a better role model than Marilyn Monroe
When Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the Met Gala recently – the shimmering, crystal-studded, second-skin gown in which…
The punk paradox of monarchism
It seems incredible that, 45 years ago, a pop group – the Sex Pistols – could release a record on…
The witch trial of Amber Heard
For the first few weeks of watching Johnny Depp and Amber Heard attempt to turn each other into twelve cans of…
Is Harry Styles really the new David Bowie?
There’s something ludicrous about old people trying to understand the pop music preferred by youth. Mind you, youth is relative…
The rise of the wimps
I was extra pleased to have swerved the modern curse that is Wordle when I read that ‘sensitive’ words have…
