RSC
Theatre as rock concert
Hamlet Hail To The Thief is so nearly a classic
Who should run the RSC next?
Someone has to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Double trouble in chaotic Comedy
Great times to be had in Canterbury despite occasionally clunky comedy and some scandalously overpriced wine
The Royal Shakespeare Company at 60: a very happy birthday?
Muted celebrations, concerns of relevance and controversial origins — Alexander Larman delves into the RSC at 60
Waking up in Bardland
Fifty years of the RSC: Reflections in a time of corona
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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
Soft-Play Britain
Britain’s governing class talks of growth and grandeur but focuses on planters and paint schemes
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The Islamic identity crisis
V.S. Naipaul was prophetic on the struggles between Islam and modernity
Critical briefing: energy price shocks
The shocks from the Iran War are yet to be felt, but are sure to be powerful
Contra Kemi
Is Kemi Badenoch a principled opponent of identity politics or an anti-woke opportunist?
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws