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
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
Homes for heroes
MPs are committed public servants who need accomodation in London to do their job
