Actor
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Against autumn
Throw away your Pumpkin Spice Lattes
The eternal lockdown of the soul
Lockdown-lifers have become a key tool of the state
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
