Richard Burton
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Diva and the Dane
The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre delves into the relationship of an acting power couple.
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The Critic
No they haven’t put the mag on the silver screen just yet, but its still worth watching
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Defending life and liberty
Abortion buffer zones hurt, rather than help women and babies
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
