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 scourge of EDI
It is patronising, divisive and anti-meritocratic
Rape crisis sabotage is a feature, not a bug, of trans activism
Trans activism is uniquely incompatible with anti-rape activism
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Starmer’s next step
The Labour leader has the chance to win trust as well as votes this election
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
The problem with right-wing natalism
No one actually knows how to raise birth rates