The Critics
Passionate subjectivity
La traviata, ENO, Coliseum
Resurrecting Lavery
The decline of Sir John Lavery’s reputation was undeserved
Does the Turner Prize still matter?
This year’s exhibition offers a diversity of style if not of ideology
Have I seen the future of music?
On a performance in three dimensions for all five senses
Missing the point
Why opera needs fictional dead women
Rock benediction
Make-Up gig is a matter of performance
A novel collector
The legacy left by art collector and novelist Hugh Walpole
Back to Blackstuff
The Boys from the Blackstuff hit the stage in Liverpool
My war stories
The role of the war film in British cinema
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
