Acting
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
The Great Pretender
When does acting stop and real life begin?
True diversity
Acting ability should matter more than “lived experience”
Kenneth Tynan: a riposte to Equity
Robin Ashenden says the critic would have declared war on an ill-judged edict
Julien Spirtle
Comeback Kid
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
