Theatre
Default, to a fault
Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?
‘Between you and me…’
All the gossip that’s fit to print from our showbusiness veteran
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
The campaign against National Conservatism is a disgrace
A peaceful conference is facing state and activist intimidation
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Realism is not the same as self-pity
There is a limit to how much women can physically protect themselves from men
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
