Drama
No one needs “privilege” to enjoy the theatre
Why Daniel Day-Lewis is wrong to think the working class need permission to go to the theatre
The Pryce is wrong
Didactic drama is often artistically empty and politically misleading
Big, dumb and full of fun?
“Operation Mincemeat” does not quite live up to the hype
Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
Low mimetic nation
Why Britain keeps mistaking TV for real life
Kemi Badenoch is right about Adolescence
Why should watching it be an obligation?
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse
More drama, less news
An element of fiction can bring insights and humanity that pure non-fiction lacks
Paper trail
Thrillers from Finland to Afghanistan
Summer viewing
Top television recommendations for the summer from Adam LeBor
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
French lessons for Farage
Following the Makerfield defeat, Reform should look across the channel to Rassemblement National for strategies
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own