The Globe
It’s no Globe
The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare by Daniel Swift
I’ll meet you at the cemetery gates
A new production of Hamlet takes one too many leaves out of Morrissey’s playbook
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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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal