‘Comedy is much more important than I thought’: John Cleese on the press, his new talk show and the power of Fawlty Towers
John Cleese enjoys tough questions. He’s currently touring America with An Evening with the Late John Cleese, and a substantial…
Who is Pride really for?
Towards the end of the first century AD, the Emperor Domitian rebranded the month of October as ‘Domitianus’. It will…
How the culture war became a crusade
In February 2020, I was invited on to the BBC’s The Big Questions to debate the topic: ‘Is wokeness the…
We gain nothing by destroying Eric Gill’s beautiful works of art
I like to think of myself as a latter-day Mother Shipton. I may not live in a cave in the…
The ‘anti-racism’ movement is sowing deeper divisions
Why the ‘anti-racism’ movement is dangerous
Could possession of the Bible become an offence in Scotland?
Scotland’s new Hate Crime Bill will make criminals of comedians
We are living through a frenzy of conformity
Reality seems thinner these days. As I walk along the high street, passers-by drift apart as though afraid of crossing…
Trump vs Twitter: the battle begins
When Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter in the UK, described the company as the ‘free speech wing of the…
The vocal minority celebrating Boris Johnson’s coronavirus diagnosis
What does it tell us that so many left-leaning individuals took to social media this week in order to celebrate…
Laurence Fox and the curdling of rational minds
I start the week by going through my iPhone to delete the numbers of former friends. It sounds depressing, but…
Andrew Doyle: I may have to kill off Titania McGrath
I start the week by going through my iPhone to delete the numbers of former friends. It sounds depressing, but…
Comedy in the era of Twitter outrage: An interview with Ricky Gervais
There’s a moment in Ricky Gervais’s 2018 Netflix stand-up show Humanity when he talks about buying a first-class air ticket,…
