Maxim Gorky
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Equality of opportunity, and other bedtime stories
Britain cannot make progress if equality is its highest goal
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
The ankle tag and the ballot box
The courts convicted Marine Le Pen, but left her political fate to French voters
Ancient bones of contention
The burgeoning and irregulated market for dinosaur skeletons
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Could the driverless car save the country pub?
Autonomous vehicles will give us the freedom to drink further from home
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies