The Critics
Killer thrillers
The creators of Gangs of London could learn a lot from SAS Rogue Heroes
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
Insanity and death
Munch at the Musée D’Orsay
Ends of empires
Two compulsive, immersive and vivid end-of-empire series
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Marble run
Let’s give up the Elgin Marbles, but not to Athens
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
Transformation of a wasteland
Surviving buildings lend texture to the development, a sense of it having a history
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
