Oxford Playhouse
Noel Coward’s public genius
This production of Private Lives amuses as much as it moves its audience
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
It is they who will surrender
We have all of tomorrow’s excuses today
The Rwanda Bill and the rule of law
Our constitutional tradition strictly separates international law from domestic law
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
