Yaël Farber
Mad for this fresh take on King Lear
Farber’s casting and concept feels assured
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The delusions of the DCMS
The establishment approach to the internet is marked by paranoia and control
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
When compassion kills
Decriminalising vagrancy is no act of kindness
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Critical briefing: Unite the Kingdom
What you need to know about the Unite the Kingdom march on May 16
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined