Hamlet
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
An antic Dane and a lame Sloane
Two artistic directors are launching their first seasons at the South Bank
Theatre as rock concert
Hamlet Hail To The Thief is so nearly a classic
Hamlet’s buoyant reinvention
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy finds fresh momentum aboard a doomed ship
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates
A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
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
Afternoon delights
Alexander Larman reports from a half-liberated, half-imprisoned world
Most Read
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 last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Bring back borstals
Antisocial teenagers need structure and discipline before it is too late
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
By the by-elections
Do not expect major surprises or lasting change as a result of the latest Scottish by-elections
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
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 last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.