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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Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
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Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
It is time for antidisestablishmentarianism
Church establishment is still worth fighting for
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
The world according to Iain Dale
How to say an awful lot and still say very little
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Reform should not abandon free markets
Nigel Farage should stick to his liberal guns against the forces of collectivism
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court