Sir Tom Stoppard
A great tribute to a giant of the theatre
Two major revivals of Tom Stoppard’s work
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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Britain must maintain its cultural inheritance
We should not allow our masterpieces to disappear overseas
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
When can we believe what we read?
Technology can make knowing the truth more difficult — but we should always have asked more questions about what we read
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
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another