Theatre
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Intriguing flaws
Man and Boy, Dorfman Theatre
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
Stage fright
The National Theatre’s new season is concerning for theatre fans
Enter stage right?
Should we celebrate a new theatrical prize for anti-woke plays?
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
Scares and spies
From ghostly thrills to Cold War chills
Expensive thrills
Turandot, Royal Opera
Silence in the Phoenix
On the transcendent qualities of acting
Lashings of child-murder
Our reviewer enjoys two very different approaches to killing
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
AI, religion and AI religion
Pope Leo is right to push back against the prophets of AI supremacy and AI doom
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas