Theatre
The many sides of Salome
Critical Mash returns!
The Pryce is wrong
Didactic drama is often artistically empty and politically misleading
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Malice in theatreland
How activist theatre undermines the arts
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
A hint of the mystical
Music has inspired two fine new productions
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
Big, dumb and full of fun?
“Operation Mincemeat” does not quite live up to the hype
Aaron is not your hero
Framing Titus Andronicus in anti-imperialist terms misses the point
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
International Women’s Day is useless for women
IWD has become a celebration of evasion and irrationality
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Tony Blair is an extremist
He should have left public life long ago
Making the case for liberalism
Wooldridge’s polemic draws together the disparate traditions of liberal thought and action
Andy Burnham’s immigration double game
Andy Burnham might make sceptical noises about mass migration but they mean nothing in practice
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?