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
Pasteurisation of the pub
Pubs may have reopened, but its new landlord is the Nanny State
Tory Lockdown rebels reach 42
Scores of Tories have defied the Government’s instruction to vote for lockdown measures
Labour is braced to back Brady
Labour’s whips are ready to ally with Tory rebels
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
Let kids be kids
The “unconscious bias” theory is detrimental in the fight against racism
How secure is Britain’s toehold in Cyprus?
What does the UK’s bilateral agreement with Cyprus mean for Britain’s presence in the eastern Med?
Why aren’t dogs social distancing?
Dogs spread risk, and owners spread dogs
Power plays
The Western powers should beware making belligerent threats they cannot back up
Excl: President of Armenia says that “excluding Turkey” is “key to peace” in the Caucasus
“For many Armenians, this war is a reminder of the genocide that happened 105 years ago”