Chekhov
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Why the Democrats cannot be populists
It goes against the managerial nature of the party
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors