King Lear
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
King Leer
Johnson is approaching the Raving On A Heath stage of his leadership
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unconquered by a
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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
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
Lord’s and ladies
The first women’s Test is a welcome step forward
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
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
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone