Indhu Rubasingham
An antic Dane and a lame Sloane
Two artistic directors are launching their first seasons at the South Bank
The RSC is crushing the National Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company has gone from greatness to greatness
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Hurty words
Robust debate is to be celebrated, not condemned
The pro-nature case for regulatory reform
England’s environmental regime hasn’t delivered a restoration of nature — only decline, delay, and bureaucracy
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
Venice Biennale 2026
Collected detritus of Biennales past, left available for recycling when there’s space to fill