Rufus Norris
A grown-up Adolescence
Inter Alia’s strengths lie in the way in which there are no straightforward answers
Joie de vivre
Has the National Theatre brought back fun?
Egotist ergo sum
Just stage Cyrano with a great actor breaking wind in a corner, and we’ll all be happy
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Critical briefing: local elections
Our political editor explains what to look out for in Thursday’s elections
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
Ed Miliband is a bad environmentalist
He has put virtue signalling before effectiveness
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
Rock star variations
Bows and Arrows: The Autobiography by Julian Lloyd Webber