The Critics
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
Remembering an unfashionable writer
BBC Radio 4 attempts to resurrect fallen literary figures.
Why it’s time to drop Don Giovanni
Mariame Clément’s new production of Don Giovanni falls prey to modern mores.
BBC embattled in Donmar’s latest
A new production delves into the tense relationship between the BBC and Stanley Baldwin’s government.
We are indebted to Otto Klemperer
On the extraordinary talent of a troubled composer
Perfect, plastic, pop princesses
The performance art of selling sterile sex
When painters lose their sight
How the loss of vision can both help and hinder artists
We don’t need another (super)hero
The shrinking world of the superhero franchise film.
Diamond geezers in Antwerp
From crime dramas to political thrillers, Adam LeBor reviews television from across the world
The Sagan standard
Liverpool’s Biennial rhetoric forgets about art
Most Read
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
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 case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
Vote Green to end antisemitism
Critics have been trying to twist their leaders’ words to resemble what they actually said
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
A triumphant return
Jesus Christ Superstar, the London Palladium
Country house colonisation
An attempt to achieve historical accountability ends up being an exercise in historical obscurantism
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved