Thomas Ostermeier
Cate and cast soar in The Seagull
Chekhov’s masterpiece tragicomedy re-tooled
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing