Issue: February 2025

Two painful coincidences underline the imbalance of a presidential command

Theatre is being turned into a parasitic secondary art form

“JustBeKindism” conceals the fact that sometimes doing right by women means taking from men

It’s difficult not to be encouraged by attendance figures over Christmas

The US is exporting its brand of Christian capitalism here, but will it suit us boozy Brits?

Resurrecting the lost art of the painter-stainers

Remarks on the history of modern tattoos

Those who now declare Israel’s “strategic defeat” aren’t paying enough attention

If the theatres staging his work are getting smaller, the list of his celebrity admirers is still extensive

Studies in the pleasures of timber, thatch and stone