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
The Road to the Cass Review — (5) Lord Moonie
How one “awkward sod” refused to follow the trend on gender
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
My Magyar dish
A dish that combines gravity with tradition, but is cheekily unorthodox
A very innocent man
Donald Trump is innocent squared. He never does, or is, anything by halves
Keep prisoners of war off social media
Social media platforms are incentivising war crimes
The NHS need not depend on immigration
The shortage of British trainees is the result of a political choice
Britain isn’t the Balkans
The UK is not, despite heated rhetoric, on the brink of sectarian violence. But it is heading in the wrong direction
In praise of Spanish practices
What Compostela can teach the City