William Shakespeare
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
The truth about Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was actually a black woman
Hamlet is not about resistance
Why Riz Ahmed’s reading gets the play wrong
Was Shakespeare really a black woman?
Too many intellectuals still cannot let Shakespeare be Shakespeare
Classic humour?
Two experiments in drama and comedy offer mixed results
Lashings of child-murder
Our reviewer enjoys two very different approaches to killing
When Shakespeare met Marlowe
Born With Teeth is not so much serious drama as high-class fan fiction
Shakespeare’s backstory
Born with Teeth makes for a diverting, thought-provoking evening
Aaron is not your hero
Framing Titus Andronicus in anti-imperialist terms misses the point
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
How Donald Trump betrayed himself
President Trump has forgotten what made him successful in the first place
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment