Andrew Doyle

‘Comedy is much more important than I thought’: John Cleese on the press, his new talk show and the power of Fawlty Towers

4 November 2023 9:00 am

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?

3 June 2023 1:48 am

Towards the end of the first century AD, the Emperor Domitian rebranded the month of October as ‘Domitianus’. It will…

canceled cancel culture

How the culture war became a crusade

17 September 2022 4:00 pm

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

16 January 2022 7:00 pm

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

5 December 2020 9:00 am

Why the ‘anti-racism’ movement is dangerous

Could possession of the Bible become an offence in Scotland?

8 August 2020 9:00 am

Scotland’s new Hate Crime Bill will make criminals of comedians

We are living through a frenzy of conformity

20 June 2020 9:00 am

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

29 May 2020 5:36 pm

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

3 April 2020 2:50 am

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

26 January 2020 6:25 pm

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

24 January 2020 10:00 pm

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

21 December 2019 9:00 am

There’s a moment in Ricky Gervais’s 2018 Netflix stand-up show Humanity when he talks about buying a first-class air ticket,…