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
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Homage to Zaporizhia and Sumy
Horror continues in Ukraine — but the tide could be turning
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
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Taking the Sheen off
Shiny old lies remain the very bedrock of our trade
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran