Royal Shakespeare Company
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
Oil on troubled waters?
Only two fellow baby boomers required urgent medical attention on an 11-day voyage
The RSC is crushing the National Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company has gone from greatness to greatness
Stormy weather at the climate talks
Werner Herzog shows the delegates the stars above the rainforest
Hamlet’s buoyant reinvention
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy finds fresh momentum aboard a doomed ship
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Unreadable red bile
This anti-capitalist screed is profoundly and irredeemably fatuous
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
Critical briefing: Tisza
What you need to know about the new Hungarian establishment
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it