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Nigel has made some great plans

By Cary Gee /Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Nigel Kennedy
Oxford New Theatre

From Russia with literary resonance

By Aleks Sierz /Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Travelling Light
National Theatre, London

The Kreutzer Sonata
Gate Theatre

Arthur – the man, the myth and the Matter of Britain

By Keith Richmond /Sunday, January 29th, 2012

The Death of King Arthur
by Simon Armitage
Faber & Faber, £12.99

Spare a thought for man who married Bloody Mary

By Richard Woulfe /Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign by Harry Kelsey
IB Tauris, £18.99

The revolutionary Harold Wilson dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain

By Geoffrey Goodman /Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Revolutionary Communist at Work: A Political Biography of Bert Ramelson
by Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley
Lawrence & Wishart, £15

It’s not truly silent, but it is golden

By Neil Young /Saturday, January 28th, 2012

The Artist
Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Down to T – she’s not just any old Iron Lady

By Patrick Mulcahy /Saturday, January 14th, 2012

The Iron Lady
Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Make a lot of noise for Frayn and Hankin

By Aleks Sierz /Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Noises Off
Old Vic, London

The Charity That Began at Home
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond

A rich harvest of hatred and revenge in Afghanistan

By Will Podmore /Saturday, January 14th, 2012

In 1838, The Times called for war on Afghanistan. The East India Company described the First Afghan War, 1838-42, as “A war of robbery…made by a people without their knowledge, against another people who had committed no offence.” In 1839, British forces took Kabul, and an officer claimed “the war may now be considered at [...]

When the Tories were the party of the working class

By Rohan McWilliam /Saturday, January 14th, 2012

Parties and People: England 1914-1951
by Ross McKibbin
Oxford University Press, £14.99

Classes, Cultures & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin
edited by Clare VJ Griffiths, James J Nott and William Whyte
Oxford University Press, £65