
Joan Bakewell Q&A: “What would make my life better? More of it to come“
The television presenter on Brexit, Beethoven, and meeting Clement Atlee at university.
ByThe television presenter on Brexit, Beethoven, and meeting Clement Atlee at university.
ByNothing annoys a self-styled alpha male more than a friend saying: “He’s got you there mate.”
ByThe film avoids controversy, but it ends up bland in a way that is probably its downfall.
ByIt is both a testament of decay, of oblivion, and also a kind of limbo.
ByIt turns out you don't always need to see and taste meals to make them interesting.
ByThe dialogue in Lucy Kirkwood’s show at the National Theatre is clever, funny and painful.
ByThe Lure's Ed Harris stormed past the usual threshold of BBC Radio 4 magnetism.
ByThe hospital imposter is an excellent dramatic device, playing on our deepest fears in BBC One's drama.
ByDavid Leitch's film forgets that a driver is only as good as her vehicle.
ByNew fiction from the author of Conversations with Friends.
ByCaroline Moorehead's absorbing biography tells the tale of Nello and Carlo Rosselli.
ByIbram X Kendi offers an un-yielding narrative of racist ideas, violence and harm – but also resistance.
ByThe novel's author Omar Robert Hamilton has activism in his blood.
ByFrom Charli XCX to Selena Gomez, music television is more wonderful than ever.
ByPeter Stamm's haunting new novel is simple, yet irreducible and mysterious.
ByIf English national character is so hard to pin down, could this mean there is no such thing any…
ByA new poem by Craig Raine.
ByAuthor John Lloyd is amazed at how Donald Trump has “set about trashing” the practice of journalism.
ByThe idea that education – all education – should be free is intoxicating and liberating. But there's a problem.
ByOn the ground in Mosul, the terror group's stronghold is crumbling.
ByThe party's war over Europe is nothing new.
ByBefore entering politics, he studied Machiavelli and the art of gaining and holding power. But is the young French…
ByThe Conservatives’ £9bn of welfare cuts will reduce family incomes by as much as £3,000 a year.
ByThe actor's book is more than the opening up of a family’s secrets. It is a cautionary tale.
ByYes, like the fake grass.
ByTokyo's ambitious governor, whose supporters wave broccoli in honour of her green slogan.
ByIt would be no exaggeration to call the president's senior policy adviser an extremist.
ByHe just looks like a Tory.
ByFear of Labour wasn't enough last time and won't be enough next time either.
ByThe classicist stays polite while being assailed by people with PhDs from the University of Extreme Self-Regard.
ByThe country's fate is a sharp rebuke to those who lionised it as the home of “21st-century socialism”.
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