Theatre
Killer jokes
The Unfriend explores how closely good and evil can live in cosy accommodation
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
The year in military history
2024 has been a rewarding year for lovers of books and history
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
The reality of assisted dying, an open letter
A plea to MPs to vote against this dangerous law
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
