Play
Terence Rattigan
The subtly subversive chronicler of Englishness still makes grown men cry
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
A maverick medic
A theatrical biography of a life saver
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
The games people play
The fascination with esoteric sports with quirky rules and limited spread
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Join the escalation?
That world war may not erupt imminently is no excuse for being complacent
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
