Lord Boothby
A sexually voracious bisexual buffoon who was rescued from infamy by powerful friends
The hilarious return of the campus novel
For its first two hundred pages, I read Shibboleth with jaw agape
Giant is electrifying and unmissable
It is a play of nuance and three dimensions, not agitprop
Indhu Rubasingham’s first season: time to be excited?
She promises a switch from the modernity-at-all-costs ethos of the Norris regime
Sympathy for the devil?
Those expecting a recipe for poulet à la Gazza may be disappointed
Enter stage right
Our new theatre critic promises to be fair and unmoved by doctrinaire groupthink
Hamlet’s buoyant reinvention
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy finds fresh momentum aboard a doomed ship
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The making of Sunak
The P.M. has the brittle self-confidence of a true Wykehamist
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing