Brian Friel
Debuts, comebacks and suprises
There are plenty of dead bodies here, but no dead air
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans