The Critics
Brad Pitt has the formula for success
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
A show’s warning from the past
Blurring the line between art and activism
Stereophonic hits all the right notes
Watch events unfold from behind the mixing desk
A series of dreaming clichés
My Oxford Year is a trend-obsessed pastiche
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
A fruitcake rather than an egghead
Somehow Alfred Brendel managed to appear both deadly serious and not serious at all
A hint of the mystical
Music has inspired two fine new productions
Fanning the flames of the firebird
D. H. Lawrence claimed the symbol of rebirth as his birthright
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
All the single ladies
Instead of trying to persuade reluctant women into motherhood, policymakers should focus on helping enthusiastic parents have larger families
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration