Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks writes a weekly arts column for the Observer. He was previously arts editor of the Sunday Times for two decades
The Critic Interview: Grayson Perry
Richard Brooks accompanies the Turner Prize-winning artist around his new show and explores his troubled pre-therapy youth
Actors do love gongs
Stars of the stage are more likely to feature in the Honours list than the people who write their scripts
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A broken Reed
Who did Steve Reed MP annoy to be sent to face the outrage of the farmers?
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Season’s bleatings
Christmas is almost here, but our MPs are not in the festive spirit
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess