The Critics
Black ops and a white-knuckle ride
Put your scepticism aside and buckle up for TV thrillers
A puzzling trip into Potter world
In search of complexity, Hilary Lloyd makes Dennis Potter’s vast oeuvre mysterious
The very curious case of Ethel Cain
A male idea of what it means to be female
All of a sudden … it’s Handel time!
Until about yesterday, “opera” meant “Romantic opera”
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
Please, no more “counter-culture”
The voice honed by experience is more necessary now than ever
The Spinal Tap reunion rocks
As with the original, at its heart this is a story about friendship
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Malice in theatreland
How activist theatre undermines the arts
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
The torment and the tourists
Holiday-makers must stop enabling the abuse of horses in Egypt
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)