Culture Helen Lewis’s notebook: The hubris of Cummings, and how to play Have I Got Lewis for You It would take a heart of stone not to laugh at the downfall of Dominic Cummings. The eye test! The “Nasa-style control room”! By Helen Lewis
Politics Helen Lewis’s Diary: Political gaslighting, learning to write in American, and linking the past with the present By Helen Lewis
Music & Theatre Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt is inseparable from its author’s biography By Helen Lewis
What we want: A hung parliament Neither Boris Johnson nor Jeremy Corbyn deserves to win the general election. By Helen Lewis
Jellyfish: exploring the sex life of a woman with Down’s syndrome “Can you hear that sound?” asks Kelly, holding one finger up in the air. “It’s my virginity, screaming.” Her… By Helen Lewis
Donmar Warehouse’s [BLANK] skewers middle-class feminist benevolence Plus: The Old Vic’s Lungs. By Helen Lewis
Chris Morris on his new terrorism satire The Day Shall Come The man behind Brass Eye and Four Lions tells Helen Lewis about the confected terrorism plots that inspired his new… By Helen Lewis
A Very Expensive Poison and Hansard: sets that make or break Two new plays, at the Old Vic and the National Theatre, both have incredible assets – but their set designs… By Helen Lewis
Hey, let’s “evolve” Lara Croft by having people try to rape her! "She is literally turned into a cornered animal." By Helen Lewis
It’s a cliché to say that politics is “beyond satire”, but Brexit really has killed comedy “What the hell,” I asked my husband at the weekend, “is that awful noise coming out of your phone?”… By Helen Lewis
Tree at the Young Vic: a self-aware but superficial exploration of African heritage The evening started well. For Tree, the “immersive theatre experience” crafted out of Idris Elba’s 2014 concept album Mi Mandela, the… By Helen Lewis