Old Vic
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
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
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
