Theatre
Freedom fighters
The radical East German playwright Heiner Müller and Michael Frayn have a lot in common
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
An appreciation of the late John Simon
Andrew Cusack remembers the apotheosis of criticism
The theatre of inconvenience
The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage
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
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Crisis of leadership
No Tory can seriously expect conservatism from Kemi Badenoch
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Max Grubb
Resentful Academic
Can Macron survive?
France appears to be becoming ungovernable
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
