The Critics
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
The welcome sound of silence
For three days I listened to nothing but birdsong, marvelling at the variety and the volume
The gossip must go on
Lockdown tales from our showbusiness mole
Artemisia will be worth the wait
A unique art exhibition awaits an audience
Lifetimes of self-isolation
Composing in seclusion
Lockdown Cinema
Staying frosty in plague times
We have been here before
A 1970s drama played on a nagging sense that modern life was fragile
Online drama can be a hit
Some of the shortcomings of the theatre turn to benefits in digital translation
The only thing to do is dance
When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show
Wildest dreamland
It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom
Christopher Rouse: 5th symphony (Naxos)
What Rouse wrote was an intimate series of love letters to the orchestra
Scullionbait
Chronicling the inroads of cultural Marxists, the woke, the right-on, and all the virtue signalling rest
The real facts of life
A welcome intervention by an author determined to return some rationalism to the trans discussion
Well wicked women
If she were a man, Lisa HIlton would surely be celebrated as the roving public intellectual she so clearly is
The dark psychology of Extinction Rebellion
The deathly symbolism of Extinction Rebellion is designed to make us conform to extreme measures
Peter King: a man of many talents
Remembering the great British saxophonist and prize-winning maker of model aircraft
Sex tips from Semele
Opera was the tinder of Renaissance Venice, says Robert Thicknesse
Anyone for abdication?
A vivid retelling of an infamous constitutional crisis
A series of unfortunate cancellations
Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?
Problematic
If someone identifies something you’ve said as problematic, they mean you are the problem