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All I wanted from Damian Green was an apology

Damian Green, all women know the difference between a hand and a tablecloth

Damian Green probably has no idea how awkward I felt

My Tory party has gambled away its reputation. It needs more than a new leader

The Casey Review: Integration of UK immigrants is a two-way process

Ghosts at Home, Manchester

The future of the monarchy has potential to be our next crisis

King Lear with Glenda Jackson, Old Vic Theatre SE1

The Rivals at Bristol Old Vic

Yerma at the Young Vic, SE1

I’d rather read Potter than Proust — confessions of a literary academic

How can we defend our liberal heritage by abandoning its values?

Book Review – 1606: William Shakespeare and The Year of Lear

Book Review – The Gap of Time

With his token women, Corbyn has done a Cameron

Hamlet, Barbican Theatre, re-reviewed

The Jeremy Vine Show: Should the Sun have published footage of the Queen playing Nazi?

The photo of a young Queen playing Nazi is an important piece of our history

What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined, Menier Chocolate Factory, SE1

Since when was the hijab a feminist statement?

Why is Elizabeth I, the most powerful woman in our history, always depicted as a grotesque?

We Conservatives can’t be the party of both meritocracy & monarchy

Newsnight – staging an election

Outside Mullingar, Ustinov Theatre, Bath

Cyrano de Bergerac, Royal Theatre, Northampton

Radio 3 Free Thinking with Srdja Popovic

In an age of ISIS, we need to think critically about saints like Thomas More

Fat Man, The Vaults, SE1

Question Time, 29 January 2015

To understand Isil, Europe must remember its own religious history

Cameron’s reshuffle played for friends. Instead, it alienated everybody

Britain has forgotten its debt to Iraq’s Christians

Suzanne Moore, please don’t start a feminist party

Paul Lamb is wrong. There is no such thing as a ‘right to die’

Feminists should celebrate the closure of Nuts: it was never pornographic enough

Channel 4 News: should oil companies sponsor the arts?

Cutting all state funding to the arts would be monstrous

Blithe Spirit, Gielgud Theatre

Gove’s attack on Etonians: a sign that senior Tories are giving up on the next election

WT4 is happening Ukraine? Channel 4 News with Paul Mason

Pandering to UKIP won’t inspire Tory voters

Don’t get too excited about Yulia Tymoshenko – or her Syrian counterparts

Ukrainians in Britain have been ignored by Cameron. So now London-based oligarchs will feel the heat…

Rape victims shouldn’t need anonymity. But they do

Nigel Farage’s hypocrisy has upstaged Cameron over Syrian refugees

Western Christians are not helping their persecuted brothers and sisters

Gender segregation: radical speakers cannot demand an audience that fits their prejudices

Michael Gove and Boris Johnson: partners in power?

The pressures, perils and peculiarities of holiday reading

Surveillance states needn’t make us paranoid

Two Ados

The School for Scandal, Barbican Centre

The Kissing Dance / Bed & Sofa

Moonlight, Donmar Warehouse

Terminus, Young Vic

Cause Célèbre, Old Vic

Gotcha, Jagged Fence at Riverside Studios

Accolade, Finborough Theatre

Getting the Arts into Shape

Fake Shakes(peare)

Over Gardens Out, Riverside Studios

Broken Glass, Tricycle Theatre

Boiling Frogs, Southwark Playhouse

Design For Living, Old Vic

The tensions undermining a pact

Bedlam, Globe Theatre

Deathtrap, Noel Coward Theatre

How To Be An Other Woman, Gate Theatre

Music Review: Philip Glass in New Haven, Sprague Memorial Hall

The Equality Dilemma

Book Review: White is for Witching

Sick Note

Book Review: Only One Thing On Their Minds

Verse Makes A Comeback