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.
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
Artistic freedom is worth the risk
Arts Council England’s revised guidance offers cause for concern over freedom of expression
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
