Bill Buckley, Gore Vidal, and the flourishing of American partisanship
In a year that Donald Trump could well become president of the United States, it is arguable that the country’s cable news networks appear, by comparison,...
Category: Review
Master of None: Aziz Ansari’s humour, but with more boring bits
It perhaps says something about the differing ambitions of Britain and America that successful standup comedians are awarded quite different prizes either side ...
George Osborne’s biography shows the shallow success of the Tory modernisers
In the wake of Labour’s humiliating summer it is tempting to think that the Tories have returned as the natural party of government, and are set to domina...
EH Shepard’s Great War and the years before Winnie the Pooh
If you thought children playing soldiers was sinister enough, it is impossible not to be struck by the darkness of a cartoon in which several kids mimic a gas a...
The Audience is a slavish sop to the Windsors that fails to convince
Perhaps the nicest thing you can say about the Windsor family is that they are a benign tumour on the fetid carcass of the British state. That, I repeat, is the...