Cush Jumbo
Jumbo soars in uneven Hamlet
Anne McElvoy gives kudos to Cush Jumbo, who has a star’s ability to rise above the inadequacies and shine bright
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Where are the calls for blasphemy laws coming from?
We should consider the voters as well as the politicians
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Don’t appeal to our worst instincts
How many will talk themselves into asking for a parent’s early death if money is involved?
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP