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
Hip-hop with a Weimar vibe
Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view
The New York Times
Bad times at the Grey Lady
Fox’s real strategy
Column inches, not mayoral success, is the real victory of Laurence Fox’s political campaign
An eye for the world after Trump
Senator Tom Cotton ticks all the Republican White House boxes – provided the last incumbent bows out
Sculptor, wrecker and seducer
A beautiful book, but a fairly orthodox biography of the Hon. Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin
Ooops!… Dave did it again
I’m shocked, shocked to find that lobbying is going on in here! adds Boris
Let’s stop wrapping our children in cotton wool
As questions are now being raised about the consequences of having shut playgrounds during lockdown, Joanna Williams says that we need to let kids be kids
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
Brexit’s best argument
VDL’s hapless performance must be delighting Brexiteers
Does Britain need more nukes?
The Integrated Review: goodbye Middle East; hello South China Sea; but still Russia first