Simon Russell Beale
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
