Michael Billington
The death of Theatre Criticism
The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today?
“Between you and me…”
Our theatre gossip columnist spills the beans on his fellow actors
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
