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When Shakespeare met Marlowe
Born With Teeth is not so much serious drama as high-class fan fiction
Shakespeare’s backstory
Born with Teeth makes for a diverting, thought-provoking evening
The end of Doctor Who
The Doctor has become deeply embroiled in a battle he can’t win — the culture war
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
The hidden bureaucracy shaping Britain’s university curriculum
Putting an end to ideological capture must start with the Quality Assurance Agency
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna