Art as resistance
This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent
Heartless Heights
Brontë’s lines anchor the frenetic action in Emma Rice’s over-the-top production
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
Jumbo soars in uneven Hamlet
Anne McElvoy gives kudos to Cush Jumbo, who has a star’s ability to rise above the inadequacies and shine bright
Star power in a parallel universe
West End openings of Constellations and Cinderella offer stage-starved audiences some magic
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
Midsummer fever dream
What is the direction of theatre for the next season?
A series of sharp transactions
Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears
Hip-hop with a Weimar vibe
Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view
Send the tools to finish the job
It is imperative that the West once again becomes “the great arsenal of democracy”
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Saving my own bacon
Only the particularly pig-headed will stick it out in the pork farming business
The enigma of Englishness
The English have debated their national nature for centuries
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Employees have the right to be gender-critical
The ICO’s gender diktats are indefensible
