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
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
In the name of God, lead
The Prime Minister appears terrified of making a stand against racism in his own party
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
Hot air strikes (again)
The Prime Minister was sending a message, but it hasn’t been received
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance