Bertolt Brecht
When Kurt was better without Bert
Musical theatre forgets all but the smashiest hits from its past
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic