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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism