Drama
The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
Does drama need the theatre to survive?
I am anticipating watching theatre from home with some trepidation
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Smacking harms children
Smacking didn’t harm you? Maybe this debate isn’t for you
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
