John Gielgud
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation
Online gambling isn’t bad for the economy
Is there an economic case for prohibitionism? No