The Silver Bell
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
American crusades
Populism is susceptible to foreign lobbies and crusading delusions
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Frivolous and doomed
Classicism still has its place at the National Theatre
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?