Theatre
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
Case closed
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
The hollow horseman
Wole Soyinka’s postcolonial pride offers no answers to Nigeria’s Christian deaths
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The testing of Giorgia Meloni
Italy’s first woman PM has proved a pragmatic conservative who has brought stability to her country
Discontent down under
Populism is now a significant part of Australian politics
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
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 last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Fast cars fit for old-school stars
Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories