The Critics
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Rebus at the school of hard Knox
The tropes are popular, because they work
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
Revolution in the air
Andrea Chénier, Royal Opera House
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
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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
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late