Culture
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?
A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books
Give us more judgement, more opinions and more criticism
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
Mindfulness won’t get you through the lockdown
Brits needs to rediscover their stiff upper lip
What will become of the hospitality industry?
Has Britain’s favourite pastime of eating and drinking reached its peak? How will the industry recovery from this financial blow?
The Rise of the Dominics
Dominic Green on the prevalence of his own name
Blessed are the geeks
The San Francisco Bay Area is short on solutions to old problems
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Where is Britain’s vision?
Modern Britain has acquired a lack of national purpose, except for policies that are self-harming
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change