The Critics
Lashings of child-murder
Our reviewer enjoys two very different approaches to killing
Do the Slow Horses stay the course?
Hopefully season five will not end in a creative cul-de-sac
Entrancing in the dark: Boss biopic
For Springsteen fans, this stuff is all gravy
Case closed
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
Literate, satirical, witty and romantic
Neil Hannon is one of the true greats of songwriting
An antic Dane and a lame Sloane
Two artistic directors are launching their first seasons at the South Bank
Nun gives new opera mass appeal
Heggie’s secret in Dead Man Walking is that operatic music doesn’t actually have to be much good
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
This century’s Great Composers
Hidden masterminds may yet revive the species
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
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy