David Hare
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
Spare us easy satire
Satire is supposed to be the unsayable, not virtue-signalling two-bit doggerel
Drop the agitprop
David Hare is an extraordinarily accomplished writer when he doesn’t revert to contemporary politics
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
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 mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Is this the end of art?
Cultural renewal cannot simply chase demand
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
The fateful road to the great dictators
Weimar Germany / Red Dawn Over China
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low