The Critics
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates
A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook
Musical Lessons
Could the jazz-hands pizzaz of musical theatre be just what opera needs?
Mystery of the missing bronze
A new excavation to find the third Riace statue is planned
Grim up north
Two new Nordic dramas reveal a darker side to Scandi paradise
Grope springs eternal
Rupert Goold’s Spring Awakening was too woke to be stirring
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
True diversity
Acting ability should matter more than “lived experience”
Strange brew
The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
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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
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power