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
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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Playing by numbers
Attacking the Space:
Inside Rugby’s Tactical and Data
Revolution by Sam Larner
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
A mean mood in Makerfield
Reform have enthusiasm, but quiet Labour voters could still swing it for Burnham
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
