Theatre
Sein oder Nichtsein
What a pairing Hüller and Fiennes would make
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
What is culture anyway?
Protecting and renewing culture demands a fuller understanding of its nature and its purposes
“Trad” theatre can still feel fresh
West End strikes a balance between keeping their spine and nostalgic appeal, whilst avoiding creakiness
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
A night of spectacle and special effects
Stranger Things: The First Shadow designers aren’t afraid to raid the treasure trove
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
First-night nerves
Books, beaches and a beloved bullet
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
The curious incuriosity of multiculturalists
We cannot blind ourselves to differences between people
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
