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
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Going off script
The only thing worse than Kemi Badenoch’s scripted questions are her unscripted questions
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
