The Critics
Radio cashes in on theatre’s loss
Radio drama is prone to over-signalling regional differences, says Anne McElvoy
Swim and tonic
The latest buzz from our back-stage gossip
A treasure trove of memories
T.V. show, The Repair Shop, is just what we need in these dark and fractured times, says Adam LeBor
Nollywood comes of age
Christopher Silvester explains how censorship has suppressed Nigerian films that have won international acclaim
The mystery of the folded dragon
Michael Prodger recounts the tale of Hergé’s drawing for the cover of the Tintin instalment: The Blue Lotus
Take a leaf out of sport’s book
Music has lost its unpredictability, its thrilling fear while sport’s passion shines, says Norman Lebrecht
Uncool country
Country music has a frontline place in the culture wars, says Sarah Ditum
Shock of the new
People are terrified of modernity’s great gift: the sudden freedom to make appalling noise, says Robert Thicknesse
Memories of a massacre
Rinder’s documentary is the kind of television at which the BBC excels, says Adam Lebor
Diversity season again
Chloé Zhao is the first Asian woman likely to be nominated in the Best Director category for Nomadland, says Christopher Silvester
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Killing with kindness
Sentimentality and euphemism cloak the cause of assisted suicide
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
The strange history of Keir Starmer and assisted suicide
How long, and to what extent, has the prime minister supported legalisation?
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
