Old Vic
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
