How Pink Floyd drama erupted over global politics
The fighting between Roger Waters and David Gilmour has escalated with the Ukraine war
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Monday
Saturday
Cunk on Earth perfectly satirizes our era of idiocy
Philomena Cunk doesn’t delight in her stupidity, but sullenly presents it as the status quo
Wednesday
I would cross the country to avoid seeing an M. Night Shyamalan film
His latest, Knock at the Cabin , is more of the same
Tuesday
Armie Hammer and cancel culture’s diminishing power
‘Someone makes a mistake, and we throw them away like a broken disposable camera’
Monday
Prince Harry will regret invading his privacy with his ‘Spare’ sex scene
From our UK edition
What a pity that memoirs don’t qualify for the Bad Sex in Literature prize. If they did, the description of how Prince Harry lost his virginity in Spare would surely qualify. That sordid tale has already passed into the annals of the least sexy writing about sex imaginable, with an older woman treating the young
Saturday
Is the world ready for a Harry and Meghan rom com?
From our UK edition
Those of us unlucky enough to have suffered through the six interminable hours of the Netflix Harry and Meghan series might now be regarding further updates from the less-than-dynamic duo with the same excitement that a dental patient looks forward to a round of root canal. But because the Sussexes have signed a multi-year deal
Friday
What is the point of the DC superhero films?
Compared to the movies Marvel puts out, they’ve tanked
Tuesday
Is Amazon wasting Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s talents?
From our UK edition
The Tomb Raider franchise seems to have been a graveyard for oddly overqualified people. Angelina Jolie played the character of Lara Croft twice after winning an Oscar, and subsequently Alicia Vikander gave the English aristocrat-turned-global adventurer a go. Neither left much of a mark – which is why it is all the more surprising that Fleabag creator and star
Monday
How King Charles can solve his Prince Harry coronation conundrum
From our UK edition
Most men in their seventies, if they had to attend an arduous public event, would hope that their younger son’s presence would be the last thing they had to worry about. They might assume their offspring would be on hand to attend to their ageing parent; to offer comfort and support when required, and to
Saturday
Bathtime pictures won’t save Prince Andrew
From our UK edition
As the furore about Prince Harry and Spare finally shows some signs of dying down – the book’s second week sales dropped 82 per cent, albeit with a wildly impressive 82,538 copies sold – it is time, once again, for his uncle to take centre stage. It seems as if the beleaguered and not-so-grand Duke of
Wednesday
The art of the royal memoir
Britain’s royal family sells books like nobody’s business
Tuesday
Why does Princess Eugenie want her son to be an activist?
From our UK edition
The furore surrounding Prince Harry and Meghan Markle has made it easy to forget about the other younger members of the Royal Family. Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, have been relatively peripheral presences on the world stage until now. Damned by association with their disgraced father, the pair have
Stephen Rubin, the publisher who speaks truth to power
‘If you’re publishing mostly books by people of color and people who are gay, then where’s the diversity?’
Monday
Will Prince Harry and Meghan spoil the King’s coronation?
From our UK edition
As the furore caused by the publication of Spare may – or may not – be dying down, there are some signs that the Royal Family are beginning to take back control of the media narrative, while refusing to make any public comment on Prince Harry’s revelations. Firstly, there was the announcement that Prince Charles
Sunday
Stop trying to make Margot Robbie a movie star
She’s far too talented and interesting for that
Friday
The unorthodox life and fall of Alec Baldwin
A wild career culminates in a horrible disaster
Wednesday
Don’t bring back Frasier
From our UK edition
At the end of the Frasier theme song, its star Kelsey Grammer always sang the words: ‘Frasier has left the building!’ And when the show finished in 2004, it felt as if Frasier, Niles, Daphne, Martin, Roz and the rest had indeed left the building. In truth, the popular programme did not end in glory. Ever since Niles
Monday
Why Avatar 2 has confounded the critics
From our UK edition
The pundits called it long ago: Avatar 2: The Way of Water was going to be a flop. They did allow that betting against the so-called ‘king of the world’ James Cameron was rash – after all, Titanic and the first Avatar film overcame almost hysterically negative buzz in order to become box office behemoths. But there were too many reasons
Saturday
Is Prince Harry blackmailing his family?
From our UK edition
For all of the noise that Prince Harry has made over the past few days (weeks, months, and years) about his loathing of the British media, he knows – or has been made aware by his publishers – of the necessity of sitting down with journalists in order to promote his book. And so it
Friday
The grand return of Pamela Anderson
2023 is to be her year, proving again that she’s no caricature of a dumb blonde
