Macbeth
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
The roaring boy Macbeth
Why Peter O’Toole’s 1980 performance at the Old Vic is remembered for all the wrong reasons
Will Starmer suppress dissent?
The riots should not be an excuse for a broader assault on civil liberties
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Is Britain’s future still being determined in Europe?
The European Court of Human Rights continues to shape policy here in the UK
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
No lessons learned from lockdown
Despite all the nuance and retrospective moderation, the Covid inquiry leaves us no closer confronting the failures of technocracy
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
