The Critics
Dogme drama Festen adapted for stage
How gratuitous would everyone would have found this if the film had never existed?
Sci-fi satire Mickey 17 misses the mark
There is a good short film here, inside a long bad one
Was this Chinese painter mad?
His style and eccentric life were to prove highly influential to younger artists
The schools of hard knocks
Many boys suffered, but some carried their misery into the world of work
Has Trump killed the arts centre?
Scrap the arts centre and restore primacy to the people making art
Cate and cast soar in The Seagull
Chekhov’s masterpiece tragicomedy re-tooled
A twisting, timely cyber-thriller
Insightful conversations from Netflix’s new political conspiracy drama
Art for cash’s sake
How to buy and sell at a profit
Slain Jane
Vanderlyn’s incendiary painting of British perfidy and indigenous brutality
This Netflix hit is a super-tense treat
A conspiracy thriller that steps deeps inside a fictional mafia whose tentacles reach far into the state
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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
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Why the establishment hates X
It can be used to spread misinformation and abuse, yes, but it can also expose inconvenient facts
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay