The Critics
An opera critic in lockdown
The critic, like a used-up traveller in ladies’ corsetry in a Fifties film, is enjoying a happy furlough
Shakespeare in the West Bank
Adam LeBor has found one of the most immersive, and exhausting, experiences television has to offer
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
Running scared of religion
Shelley’s story prompts us to consider the relationship between The Almighty and man
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
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
Nature neglected
In this election green policy only get airtime when it can be linked to jobs
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Pushing the boundaries
The map of the world is likely to be redrawn, thanks to the decline of post war Pax Americana, an expansionist Russia and China, and the push for ethnic sovereignty
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
