Theatre Review
It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire
A drama based around the shaky paradox of deterrence no longer feels like a dusty throwback
A shot of Christmas spirit
The Old Vic’s “A Christmas Carol” is properly affecting
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Telling tales out of school
Is it really about sex, race, generational hierarchies — or the changeable nature of student-teacher relationships?
The intimacy of thoughts
An excess of technology burdens a cerebral adaptation
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
