Tamara Harvey
The RSC is crushing the National Theatre
The Royal Shakespeare Company has gone from greatness to greatness
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Tasty tunes
The Chocolate Soldier, Opera della Luna, Wilton’s Music Hall
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Sometimes look on the bright side of life
We should welcome the more culturally affirmative moments of pessimistic and condemnatory commentators
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
No Keirs, only dreams now
With the prime minister on his way out, even his own MPs have discovered a fondness for him
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”