Magazine
Royal blush
Boycotting the Crown and handbags at dusk
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
The brats who ruin brunch
Brunch provides the luxurious pleasure of a relaxed mid-morning meal until the ankle-biters arrive
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
In a poet’s footsteps
A trip to Ted Hughes’s “loneliest place”
Wheel of fortune
Are the fine margins that win championships and make careers all down to luck?
First past the post
The Critic’s Racing Awards
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
The conversion of St Lee
Never mind migrants converting, what about the MPs?
History will judge us on gender
How can the modern world tolerate such absurdity?
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Cultural Christianity and the vulgar wisdom of memes
Dawkins is caught between the pure idea of rationalism, and the messy meme of cultural Christianity
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Small talk and big asks
Men’s mental health is a serious matter — but it is wrong to expect people to be lifesavers
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
After the Cass Review
Our elected politicians need more independence from partial lobbyists
