Shakespeare
It’s no Globe
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
Why bankers are living saints
Fiction and drama are filled with unhappy financiers, but the real world is very different
Hamlet’s buoyant reinvention
Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy finds fresh momentum aboard a doomed ship
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
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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
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
The trans war on reality
Trans activists loudly trumpet a false mythology
of victimhood. In fact, trans people are more
likely to kill than be killed,
The Farage flounce
A joke that worked, and an exit that didn’t.
Marketing masters
Catching the eye of a buyer in the social media era
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future