Macbeth
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
Complex fractions
Where is the joy and the reward of owning a fractional share in individual art?
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Italy is right to extend its ban on surrogacy
It is good for women and it is good for children
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Their work here is done
British politicians are very proud of their role in Syria, whatever it was
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”