The Critics
The man who saved Italy’s art
The man, the schemes and the burglar-alarmed fortress that kept Italy’s artistic legacy away from German acquisition
Family troubles
Frecknall’s Streetcar is a commendable, if not stellar outing
A college in tune with the times
How music colleges need to adjust to the twenty-first century
Romcom revival
Making romcoms modern: plausible obstacles to happiness and a broadening of vision
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
Dem bones, dem sky-high bones
Dinosaur skeletons have stalked their way out of the museum world and into that of well-heeled collectors
A hellhole Noël
Stalag 17 followed by Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is an ideal festive double-bill
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Bragg shows what is possible
A show worth the licence fee by itself
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
On conservative despair
It is hard to escape the sense of tremendous national loss
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
