The Critics
Dress rehearsal
A 2015 comedy starring Volodymyr Zelensky is now showing on Channel 4
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake
Being the girl in the green jumper
Cyril Mann’s muse, Renske Mann, rescues the artist from forgotten obscurity
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Art as resistance
This Belarusian play at the Barbican is timely and urgent
Kino Kyiv
What to watch inform yourself about the rich Ukrainian cinematic tradition
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
Modern technology meets the sixteenth century
For a limited time, the wonders of Lombardy are in the National Gallery
Gone West
What happened to Kanye?
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
The emptiness of hype
A cultural legacy depends on far more than passing enthusiasm
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
The sculptor’s funeral
The death of Imogen Stuart represents the passing of an Ireland that built, rather than destroyed
The great immigration data disaster
Officials are deleting the data we need for a more sensible debate
