The Critics
Save the Prince Charles cinema!
It’s shabby, but we should embrace that
Electric hallucinations
We need new and more incisive artistic critiques of technology
Bane sailing
There’s got to be some sort of price to pay for being so fabulous
Play Misty for me
Father John Misty has faked his way into a kind of blazing honesty
Black Bag is refreshingly good
The characters are well-drawn and every performance is terrific
Art from the GDR
East German artistry endures long after its tyranny has been forgotten
Yes, beauty matters. Now what?
How do we address our current artistic crisis and the wearying stalemate of the “culture wars”?
This earthy opera is a real sob story
I have seen seven different productions of Jenůfa and I never fail to be overcome
Bach and forth
The Score – Theatre Royal Haymarket
When I talked over Franz Ferdinand
The only band I’ve seen and wish I’d been paying attention to
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
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
The asylum seeker will see you now
We should not legitimise illegal migration and its damaging effects
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon