Almeida Theatre
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Revive the roots
To save the Conservative Party, its chairman must return powers to the local associations
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?