A playwright without heirs
The quintessential intellectual, Tom Stoppard convinces theatregoers they are far cleverer and better-read than they actually are
Paddington: The Musical is an abomination
Bond would be rolling in his grave if he could see what has been done to his character
When Shakespeare met Marlowe
Born With Teeth is not so much serious drama as high-class fan fiction
Everything is showbiz
There is something heroic about getting big, guilty laughs out of the most offensive subjects imaginable
The RSC is crushing the National Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company has gone from greatness to greatness
Stereophonic hits all the right notes
Watch events unfold from behind the mixing desk
A grown-up Adolescence
Inter Alia’s strengths lie in the way in which there are no straightforward answers
Big, dumb and full of fun?
“Operation Mincemeat” does not quite live up to the hype
Lets hear it for Rattigan again
The consummate playwright of the obscure workings of the human heart
Theatre as rock concert
Hamlet Hail To The Thief is so nearly a classic
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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
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Undramatic life of a literary also-ran
Malcolm Cowley never understood very much about literature