soap opera
Soft soaping suicide
Emmerdale’s coverage of assisted suicide was disturbing
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
War returns to Kursk
Could the famous WW2 era battlefield be yet another military turning point?
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
