‘Comedy is much more important than I thought’: John Cleese on the press, his new talk show and the power of Fawlty Towers
‘I’ve realized in the last nine years that comedy is much more important than I ever thought’
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Saturday
Thursday
Kamala Harris doesn’t get AI
The whole speech, terrifyingly, showed that Harris hasn’t really got to grips with AI
Wednesday
Kamala Harris's brain-dead AI plan
Her speeches often sound as if they had been scripted by an early or pre-intelligent incarnation of ChatGPT
Friday
Surprisingly addictive and heartwarming: Netflix's Beckham reviewed
My inexpert opinion on him was that he was probably a decent-ish player
Monday
Europe needs to step up on Ukraine
Ukrainian fatalities already exceed American losses in two decades of involvement in Vietnam
Friday
What could be more Shakespearean than a ghost?
She is, says Netflix’s advance publicity, going to tell her husband that he looked handsome
Monday
The Queen’s sole mistake
Sixty years ago, Elizabeth II erred in her appointment of a new prime minister
Friday
Bill Stirling – the brains behind the wartime SAS
Gavin Mortimer’s vivid and meticulously researched book, 2SAS, acknowledges the importance of SAS’s founding father
Saturday
125,000 Hong Kongers have come to the UK. Where are they?
More people have arrived in Britain from Hong Kong in the past three years than came from the Caribbean in the first ten years of the Windrush
Friday
The outrageous felling of the Sycamore Gap tree
The outrage at the demolition of the tree must be directed more widely than to just one of them
Friday
When will Elizabeth II get the memorial she deserves?
There will be no public event to remember her
Thursday
How Withnail and I became a cult classic
His work— a handsome scrapbook of interviews with key personnel, memorabilia and testimonials from celebrity fans — is a matryoshka of nostalgia
Wednesday
A tribute to the lost art of letter writing
Receiving a letter was as intense a pleasure as we would ever get later on from great literature
Sunday
The forgotten end of the second world war
It was America’s policy of defending China that turned an Asian war into a world war
I’ve spent my life hunting the Loch Ness Monster
I had no choice but to try
The many lives of George Weidenfeld, legendary publisher and ladies’ man
Born in a poor quarter of Vienna, he took London by storm, married four times, survived financial ruin and died eulogized the world over
Monday
Colourful, tender and sweet, grounded in magical rather than social realism: Scrapper reviewed
A film about a working-class British kid that’s not grim and earnest
Sunday
Fish and chips: the fast food that made me
This classic is easier to make at home than you might think
Tuesday
Is Joe Biden really a close friend of Britain?
Britain would almost certainly have been better served had Trump stayed in office
Wednesday
Nato's leadership race is a miserable advert for the alliance
The role of secretary-general should not be a prize handed out to the least offensive candidate