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New life for a dying trade
The book world is on its last legs. So how we can bring it back from the dead?
Fat lot of use
One cannot approve of so lazy a gimmick as a fat suit in reality-obsessed 2024
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
Walter’s Arctic Circle is a winner
Welcome to a kaleidoscopic showcase of topical dramas in vivid settings
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The dark side of the White House
As in ancient Rome, power politics are always a promising arena for drama
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws