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Who doesn’t want to be a millionaire?
Dominic Hilton contemplates the origins of his obsession with money
Milking it
There is nothing semi-skimmed about Sir Charles Walker
The Royal Shakespeare Company at 60: a very happy birthday?
Muted celebrations, concerns of relevance and controversial origins — Alexander Larman delves into the RSC at 60
Are overcomplicated back stories killing drama?
As Line of Duty now seems mired in the complexity of its own backstory, Alexander Larman asks if on-screen plots have become too complicated for us to enjoy
The cost of being a lockdown sceptic
The British intelligentsia as a class has failed in the most public way possible to defend free speech
Squeaks and bumps
Dominic Hilton reminisces about his father’s hoard of bizarre avant-garde CDs, LPs and cassette tapes
You say it best when you say nothing at all
Nicola Sturgeon’s defence is impregnable because it concedes so little usable information
Why can’t we have a good film of Noël Coward’s plays?
If one judged the playwright solely on the film versions of his work, one might be forgiven for believing that he had never been particularly accomplished
Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Studio: Drawing US Presidents
John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career