Artillery Row
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
A straightforward triumph
Mary Page Marlowe is a subtle, elliptical and affecting piece of work. Cyrano de Bergerac is straightforwardly a triumph
Pantsuit deportations
How to make it dinner party acceptable
Assisted suicide backers are on the ropes
The Royal Colleges revealed serious flaws at the Lords’ Select Committee
Anti-tobacco fanatics need to lighten up
The fun-loving World Health Organisation’s five ways of getting to tobacco prohibition
You don’t hate him enough
Piers Morgan’s book is incoherent rambling narcissism
It is time the UK got real about energy
Our energy system defies the laws on which our prosperity depends
Why update PG Wodehouse?
Cynically timed for Christmas, celebrity authors have reimagined the classic characters
Defenders of the faith
Why the King’s visit to the Holy See matters
The annexation election
The Irish Presidential contest contains yet more republican provocations
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Ditching ancient traditions is not progress
Uniforms, oaths, titles, offices are the joints that hold together the structures of the state
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale