Cate Blanchett
Cate and cast soar in The Seagull
Chekhov’s masterpiece tragicomedy re-tooled
Black Bag is refreshingly good
The characters are well-drawn and every performance is terrific
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
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James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
A below-par Riley is still better than most
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Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
Unionists should unite
It’s time to build alliances to ensure that unionists are not let down again
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The battle between sacred and profane
When the divine law appears to clash with our sense of justice, can it truly be considered divine?
Fence-sitting in a time of peril
Daniel Johnson condemns the Prime
Minister’s impotent handwringing when
America called for help in the Iran war
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian