Netflix’s Hostage is an act of cultural aggression
Apart from hunting, one of the very few consolations of the end of summer is that telly stops being quite…
Shallow and silly: Born With Teeth, at Wyndham’s Theatre, reviewed
Born With Teeth is a camp two-hander starring a pair of TV luminaries, Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel, as Marlowe…
Both thin and overblown: Royal Ballet’s A Single Man reviewed
A common flaw in narrative ballet today is the attempt to tell stories that are too complex and ramified for…
The problem with Chappell Roan
There is a downside to being fast-tracked into the position of this season’s newest pop sensation, and it became more…
Britain’s loveliest, most thoughtful festival
The last weekend of August is my favourite of the year. That’s when I pootle down to Cranborne Chase to…
A gallery that refuses to dumb-down
The DNA of Dulwich Picture Gallery is aspirational, in the sincerest sense. Opening in 1817 when private collections were still…
‘Modern pop makes me want to kill myself’: Neil Hannon interviewed
Search for a successor to Tom Lehrer, and you’ll be hard pressed to find any decent candidates. One of the …
Utah’s Spencer Cox has displayed America’s best values
Governor Spencer Cox of Utah rose above the crowd when he spoke of Charlie Kirk‘s assassination and the apprehension of…
Stephen King, The Long Walk and Charlie Kirk
Under normal circumstances, the author Stephen King should have been feeling pretty good about things and himself at the moment.…
Theresa May’s attack on the Assisted Suicide Bill was phenomenal
‘This was Parliament at its best’, so went the inane and factually incorrect mantra of Kim Leadbeater as her Assisted…
Micheal Martin is on the wrong side of the flag debate
Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin is keeping a close eye on the ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ campaign, and he does not like what…
The Oxford Union and the shameful response to Charlie Kirk’s killing
George Abaraonye was elected in June to be the Oxford Union president for Hilary term 2026. He is a PPE…
Man arrested over murder of Charlie Kirk
To the US, where the FBI has been searching for Charlie Kirk’s shooter, after the 31-year-old was tragically killed while…
Charlie Kirk could have been president
As with so many political assassinations across the Atlantic – the Kennedys, Martin Luther King –Charlie Kirk’s killer is likely…
America’s troubled theopolitics
The bloody ideological instability of the United States – demonstrated this week by the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk –…
What’s the real reason Spain and Ireland have a problem with Israel?
What do Ireland and Spain have in common? This week, the answer is Jews. On Monday, Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez,…
The Mandelson ‘joke’ fell flat in Washington
Lord Peter Mandelson is to the “Third Way” what Roger Stone is to populism – an alte kameraden from the freewheeling early…
Penalty fares surge after Jenrick Tube stunt
Robert Jenrick has had a good summer. Back in June, the shadow justice secretary caused a social media stir when…
Bolsonaro’s conviction reveals a divided Brazil
Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro has been sentenced to 27 years in jail after being found guilty by the…
Britain’s growth figures are even worse than they look
Keir Starmer should be thankful for Lord Mandelson. Were it not for scandal over the Mandelson’s connections with Jeffrey Epstein,…
Lords line up against assisted dying
Happy Friday, one and all. It is a big day in the House of Lords as peers gear up to…
Lord Hermer is dangerously wrong about the ECHR
How things change. Five years ago few electors cared about the UK’s membership of the ECHR. Today that same convention,…
After Charlie Kirk, Trump should crack down on campus ‘safetyism’
An assassin who wants to silence a debate in America’s colleges can’t do it just by killing Charlie Kirk. Although…
