Shakespeare
The Bard at Christmas
It is impossible to appreciate Shakespeare without acknowledging his Christian foundations
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
Chapter and verse on the unknowable Bard
The striking thing about Sir Stanley’s Shakespeare is how unsexy he is
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Counterfeit Cleese
Coates on Cleese, Collins and Cole
Instruments of shock and awe
Jean Sibelius/Arne Nordheim; The Tempest (Naxos/LAWO)
Who should run the RSC next?
Someone has to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Tough women take on the bad guys
When it comes to spy dramas and domestic angst, less is very definitely more
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The dangerous rise of egg harvesting
Women should not be encouraged to undergo a dangerous and unnecessary procedure
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
