The Critics
A magnificent gift for Oxford
The Schwarzman Centre offers stately new facilities for all the university’s humanities departments
Vivid nostalgia
The Cunning Little Vixen, Irish National Opera, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
Taking the hawking cure
Are rental families a real thing?
All’s fair in love
Così fan tutte, English National Opera, Coliseum
Roxy Music but they’re all Kate Bush
The Last Dinner Party are a proper rock band, but the spell is too easily broken
Wuthering lows
This film is all style and no substance
An austere opera
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera
No longer the best advert for good art
If contemporary art is stuck, what is the fix?
The hounding of a poet and teacher
Communism is the only guarantee of human happiness
Why we need orchestras
China has grasped that an orchestra is more than a payroll of musicians
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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
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs