James McManus
Midsummer fever dream
What is the direction of theatre for the next season?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Allyship on easy mode
The inclusive message of Will & Harper obscures the harder questions of the “gender wars”
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
