Theatre
Family troubles
Frecknall’s Streetcar is a commendable, if not stellar outing
Cross questioning
The travails of ageing actors
Royal blush
Boycotting the Crown and handbags at dusk
Norse mode
How John Gabriel Borkman is a hard Ibsen play to like
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
Doctor in a spin
West End zingers on stage now
Reason’s misrule
The revival of Jerusalem reminds us of a still-forgotten England
Transing Joan
She, Joan. You, hack
Harold Pinter: from bad to verse
The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
Bants means bans
Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
