Dancing feat
Aaron S. Watkin, an affable bearded Canadian, is the new artistic director of English National Ballet. He arrives from Dresden,…
Arresting visual spectacle and superb fight scenes: Netflix’s One Piece reviewed
What would you say is the most successful comic-book series in history? If you’re thinking Tintin you’re not even close.…
Last orders
Ken Loach has said The Old Oak will be his last film – he’s 87; the golf course probably beckons.…
No balls
The first episode of George Osborne and Ed Balls’s new podcast, Political Currency, opened with an old clip of the…
Tidal power
In David Alden’s production of Peter Grimes, the mob assembles before the music has even started – silhouetted at the…
Northern lights
Claudia Massie on the spectacular new galleries that showcase the best of Scottish art for the first time
Blow your mind
The UK seems on the brink of a ‘psychedelic renaissance’ – but, stripped of shamanic ritual and sanitised for medicinal purposes, will psilocybin retain its power?
Lies and extremism
The demonisation of the state of Israel is basically an anti-Semitic mutation ‘evolving out of reach’, argues Jake Wallis Simons, the editor of the Jewish Chronicle
Passchendaele all over again
When Allied forces landed at Salerno on 9 September, they expected an easy run to Rome. But the intelligence proved dangerously faulty, as James Holland explains
Rising star
The second volume of Knausgaard’s trilogy serves as a prequel to the first, tracing the origins of Norway’s ominous new celestial body
Hell on Earth
More than 100 interviews with surviving detainees and former prison workers reveal how profoundly shocking President Assad’s regime continues to be
Drowning in the typing pool
For decades, undereducated girls were thwarted before they even started in the workplace, living in the slipstream of men and drip-fed with a sense of their own uselessness
The view from the lab
The neuroscientist Camilla Nord places considerable emphasis on scanning technology, but has disappointingly little to suggest in the way of effective new treatments
Two for the road
Jane Glover follows the rapturous Wolfgang around Venice, Bologna, Florence and Naples on three journeys that would change the young composer’s life
Scent and smoke and sweat
The world would never be quite the same again after we first glimpsed the casino of Royale-les-Eaux at three in the morning, says Philip Hensher
Labor’s misinformation bill: an egregious attack on free speech
The management of Covid by the Australian authorities has shown that the emergence of tyranny, with its suppression of free…
There is still everything to play for in New Zealand’s general election
With two weeks to go before New Zealand’s general election, the contest is so close that many have stopped bothering…
GB News civil war intensifies
It’s safe to say that this hasn’t been GB News’s finest week and there’s no sign of the drama stopping…
The establishment and the mob
In The Revolt of the Masses — first published in 1930 — José Ortega y Gasset proposed that the most important fact…
Rishi Sunak is right to get rid of 20 mph zones
Are we seeing the real Rishi Sunak at last? Since telling the nation on 20 September that his government will…
Don’t read too much into North Korea releasing a US soldier
Perhaps he was not so useful after all. Yesterday, North Korea’s decision to expel Private Travis King, just over two…
The UK’s GDP is proving Remainers wrong
You can almost sense the agonising among hardcore remainers, the howls of anguish. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has…
Slow economic growth won’t help the Tories reduce the tax burden
The Office for National Statistics has released the UK’s quarterly national accounts this morning, which show growth in the second quarter of…
