Acting
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
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
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Opposing big government means opposing climate change
We need a market-led course to net zero
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
