Theatre Review
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Murders for April
Make sure it is the cruellest month with this detective fiction
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Devolution has been a disaster
Wales, and the United Kingdom at large, are weaker for the devolution project
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)