National Theatre
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
They’re not laughing now
Without taxpayer handouts, will the arts finally be forced to give people what they want?
A long-term bet we must take
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the show will go on again; it always does
Does drama need the theatre to survive?
I am anticipating watching theatre from home with some trepidation
Has the National Theatre lost its way?
Alexander Larman considers Rufus Norris’s vision, and the future of the National Theatre.
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Three pheasants, one Land Rover
Labour’s new war on pheasant shooting is about who gets to decide how England’s land is used
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The next chapter for The Critic
A request — and an opportunity!
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules