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Keeping my act topical, given our chaotic government, is getting beyond a joke

The famously aloof stand-up is thrilled to be back on stage, and, if his last show was a fraction sharper, this new one is a treat even so

Less richly structured than his best work, this looser-limbed evening has given the comic wing-spreading room to experiment

From fracking happy Jacob Rees-Mogg to Nadhim Zahawi and his warm horses, the Tory top table is beyond parody

The new prime minister’s cabinet is comprised of people who were born to win, but for the rest of us, life is just a gamble

King Lear may have divided the country in two and turned it against itself but perhaps, like the outgoing Tory leader, he ‘got all the big calls right’

The confused anti-woke brigade attack indiscriminately and the arts end up as collateral damage

The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony tried to gloss over what a rotten country this has become. It only confirmed it

Who’s in charge by now? Mike ‘Concrete’ Graham? A jar of Bovril with some mould in it? Morbius the Living Vampire?

Proposed cuts to English lit courses are symptomatic of the Conservatives’ ignorance of culture and disregard for ordinary people’s access to it