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
Germany in the shadow of Napoleon
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how the wars with revolutionary France reshaped the German lands
A roaring monster
Letters from the Falklands front: Trauma and machismo continue to define the Malvinas issue in Argentina
The Welsh way of woke
Wales has an established church again: the religion of “anti-racism”
Fenella Jeavons: Sponsorship Facilitator
Milking the Philistines — someone’s got to do it
An unaccustomed wine
30 years ago English wine was changed forever, and a vinicultural revolution began
Why is the LGB Alliance film having its funding cut?
The charity is being hounded in the courts by TRAs, but cash is still making its way to the “Family Sex Show”
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
Why are republicans such “sour-faced Puritans”?
Opponents of the monarchy are also suspected of hating Christmas, puppies and the sound of children’s laughter