Culture
On Leadership by Tony Blair, Precipice by Robert Harris, and Oxford crime – Books of the Month
On Leadership by Tony Blair; Precipice by Robert Harris; Lessons in Crime: Academic Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order review – “An excellent account”
Dr Edward Howell, whose columns in the Spectator and the Telegraph are among the...
A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens review – In Defence of Grammar Schools
Review – A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System by Peter...
Veranilda by George Gissing review – The best historical novel never written
George Gissing remains the most underrated novelist in the English language. He wrote twenty-three...
Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart review – “The prime minister we never had”
This is a marvellous book, a memoir of Rory Stewart’s nine years in Parliament,...
Here’s to you, Ms Robinson
Christy Edwall listens to the Pulitzer-prize winning novelist and essayist speak
Review: Bug
Will Tummon is held emotionally captive by this raw, heartfelt and unmissable production
Review: Proof
Jonathan Chapman is not disappointed by this emotional play
Review: Dark Shadows
Georgina Pollard is left somewhat cold by Tim Burton's latest film
Review: Donkeys’ Years
In one of the last bastions of all-male academia, Jonathan Chapman takes in a delightful garden production
Suicide on the rail tracks
Thoughts from inside a train. When somebody took their own life under the wheels of an earlier train, things started to look a bit different.
Preview: The Deep Blue Sea
Timothy Bano previews what looks to be an excellent production of a play full of emotional understatement
Preview: Proof
Angus Hawkins recommends this stunningly good production
Angels and Consolations
Katy Wright provides a glimpse into what it is like to stage an opera
Storming the Bastille
Matthew Robinson and Olivia Arigho-Stiles consider the up-and-coming indie quartet
A Bluffer’s Guide to: Post-Dubstep
Matt Jones explores the latest scene to develop out of the UK Bass culture
A Bluffer’s Guide to: Terence Rattigan
Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate illuminates this establishment classic
Preview: Anything Goes
Maria Fox is hugely charmed by this Pembroke Production
Preview: After the Dance
Angus Hawkins thinks this rarely performed play is well worth seeing
