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
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Developing nations will be forced to choose
Sitting on the fence between China and the USA is unsustainable
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?