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?
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
