Arts
The Thomas Cromwell plays would be stronger if they made him weaker
Three things you might not expect of the RSC’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Tudor novels. First, Mike Poulton’s plays have…
Fists of cash, hookers and a candle in your bum palls after a while
Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street will set the cat among the pigeons as a number of films do.…
After Sherlock, TV will never be the same again
You know the holiday season is over when, instead of being torn between The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing…
When did you last hear a news report you could trust completely?
‘It put a lot upon us,’ said Christopher Jefferies’s aunt. ‘The ripples went on and did not stop for a…
Would you have been let in to an '80s club?
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Dress to impress
People will go to extraordinary lengths to get into a nightclub. Nowadays you must wear something tight, and look slinky.…
Collecting compulsion
About 30 years ago, not long before he died, my father bought an LP of Sir Clifford Curzon playing Schubert’s…
Collecting compulsion
About 30 years ago, not long before he died, my father bought an LP of Sir Clifford Curzon playing Schubert’s…
Art shows you simply mustn't miss in 2014
Andrew Lambirth reveals the treats on show in 2014
Overrated Strauss vs underrated Gluck
This is the first of my more-or-less monthly columns, the idea of which is to report on operatic events other…
Lang Lang: You can't compare Bach and Schoenberg, or Justin Timberlake and The Beatles
Matthew Stadlen talks to the Chinese pianist Lang Lang
All I want next Christmas is new Christmas songs
Three months until spring. Four months until the start of the cricket season. And only nine months until the radio…
The Duck House is the best show in the West End
It’s taken me a few months to catch up with the political farce The Duck House. Then again, it’s taken…
Deborah Ross: 12 Years a Slave harrowed me to within an inch of my life
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave goes directly to the heart of American slavery without any shilly-shallying — unlike The…
James Delingpole: 'The Truth About Immigration' is anything but
Immigration. Were you aware that this has become a bit of a problem these past ten years? I wasn’t, obviously,…
Bye-bye Bric, hello Mint — are Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey really the new boom economies?
New year new ideas as we woke up on Monday morning to find ourselves in Lagos with Evan Davies trying…
Why is there no God in the British Library's latest exhibition?
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
Sins of omission
Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain at the British Library (until 11 March) would have you…
An irrepressible spirit
As Lang Lang walked from the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in November, a little girl emerged from the…
An irrepressible spirit
As Lang Lang walked from the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in November, a little girl emerged from the…
Seasonal torture
Three months until spring. Four months until the start of the cricket season. And only nine months until the radio…
Seasonal torture
Three months until spring. Four months until the start of the cricket season. And only nine months until the radio…
There are too few masterpieces in Masterpieces: Art and East Anglia
Andrew Lambirth on the Sainsbury Centre’s latest exhibition
