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The Boys from the Blackstuff hit the stage in Liverpool
A maverick medic
A theatrical biography of a life saver
Moscow rules
The machinations of Russian regime are dramatised in a new play.
BBC embattled in Donmar’s latest
A new production delves into the tense relationship between the BBC and Stanley Baldwin’s government.
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
A devil to relish
The stories that tell us that women are damned if they play the game of sexual availability and just as doomed if they don’t
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
Family troubles
Frecknall’s Streetcar is a commendable, if not stellar outing
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
