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
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism