The Critics
Once more with Gustavo
“Orchestra makes right call” shock!
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 roles
The Dungeons & Dragons romp-com
Boney’s PR man
Antoine-Jean Gros: the artist behind Napoleon’s image
Chaos captivates
The newest season of Fauda is the most complex and thus the most satisfying so far
Radio 2 is now beyond my Ken
What used to work, and what listeners enjoyed, is no longer the most important consideration for the decision-makers in Radio
Going for a song
In true bel canto, the only important thing is the voice, the song
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
What are universities for?
The battle for British universities is not yet lost
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
