American Dirty Tricks
When white American author Jeanine Cummins wrote a novel about Mexican refugees a critical firestorm erupted
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Independence: a two-way street
Both judges and politicians must respect long-standing constitutional conventions
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
Gustav Mahler: 4th symphony (Pentatone)
A new recording of Mahler’s smallest symphony is “indispensable” to connoisseurs of his music
The American nightmare
America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain
Channel 4 is not worth conserving
You can’t build a nation on Dr Who, Gin and publicly-owned TV networks
A singular modern master
Architect John Outram fused high-tech and tradition to create his own unique style
BBC butterflies
Trans charity Global Butterflies seems harmless — but are they really cuckoos in the nest?
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem