Was Shakespeare really a black woman?
Too many intellectuals still cannot let Shakespeare be Shakespeare
Enter stage right?
Should we celebrate a new theatrical prize for anti-woke plays?
Must we burn Samuel Pepys?
What the Pepys censors fail to grasp about the Restoration era
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
David Bowie was a political shapeshifter
The pop enigma veered between the far right and the right on
Simon Raven
A controversial writer who could produce work as splendid as it was scurrilous
Booty and the green-eyed beast
What plays out as limpid tragedy on the page becomes trouser-dropping farce
An antic Dane and a lame Sloane
Two artistic directors are launching their first seasons at the South Bank
Should young actors copy Richard Burton?
His remarkable and unpredictable talent would be hard to pull off today
Why update PG Wodehouse?
Cynically timed for Christmas, celebrity authors have reimagined the classic characters
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic