The Critics
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Graphics, games and occult entities
A retrospective of Treister’s work reveals the frictions in the artist’s motivations
Borne back into the past … of Bolton
Oh no, not another cliche!
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
Crime thrillers 101
A new heist movie is basic and fun
Mehta’s protest over the Gaza war
In the run-up to his 90th birthday, Zubin Mehta decided to sever contact with Israel
The (bearable) weight of being
If art can help the mind, we must focus on the art
Intriguing flaws
Man and Boy, Dorfman Theatre
When Kurt was better without Bert
Musical theatre forgets all but the smashiest hits from its past
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Infamous five
To most of us, the Cambridge Five are just names
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The spy chief who sold us Blue Nun
Raise a glass to a long life, very well lived