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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
Lessons on being a rule-taker
The EU reset undermines Brexit and Britain
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous