The Critics

A tale of two Harrys

Adam LeBor on the sharply written TV show: The Windsors

Would the Bard be forced to rebrand himself “gender-fluid”?

Romeo Coates on the latest backstage gossip

Unleash this heavenly voice

The role of music in Jewish worship has acquired a sudden topicality with the involvement of two major record labels

Less austerity, more pizazz

Grand opera was long thought quite dead but is suddenly rearing its shaggy head again

Calculated absurdity

I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum

The gender discount

Women may now account for 64 per cent of fine arts graduates in Britain but research shows the old values remain entrenched, says Michael Prodger

Blessed plot – or maybe not

“Albion” takes up the challenge of the moving goalposts of Brexit and social and economic fragmentation, says Anne McElvoy

Untrue story of the Kelly Gang

For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester

Pure gold among the C4 dross

Adam LeBor strikes television gold

“Between you and me…”