New Year’s Rishilutions
Can he turn things around? Probably not
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Davros man
COMUNICATE! COMUNICATE! COMUNICATE!
Pure pantomime
Parliament is putting on quite a show this Christmas
Top of the polls
Starmer’s cult of impersonality is frustrating Labour Leninists everywhere
No room at the premier inn
Britain is fully booked this Christmas and won’t be accepting any more lodgers
Normal government will resume shortly
Britain has ground to a halt but its static from 10 Downing Street
Back at the despatch box agane
Michael Gove enjoys another chance to cause chaos
I, Sunak
An uninspired outing on all sides
A Hancock for the ages
Could our former health secretary actually be a time-travelling hero?
The Conservatives can still reform our cultural institutions
The Tories should cut the Blob down to size before Keir Starmer comes to power
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
Therapy is making children ill
What would really help children’s mental health is talk about resilience
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
