Vice Versa at Stratford: “madcap but not sharp enough…”
Richard Lutz takes his pew for a new comedy by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Finger painting and other tales
Richard Lutz reviews his seven days…this week in and out of museums.
The Elston Report: Trump trip triggers trouble
Sir Howard Elston, our Mid East correspondent, outlines what will happen when Doughball Trump lands in Saudi Arabia for his first summit.
Tommy: relentless songs that run out of puff
Richard Lutz takes his pew for the anthemic play about a kid who plays a mean pinball.
Where history sleeps
Richard Lutz gets lost in Shakespeare country.
Skin deep and forever young (ish)
Cosmetics, creams and powders. Sheilagh Matheson experiments to discover what works and what doesn’t.
Fightin’ words
Will Mapplebeck is on the election trail to boredom.
The past is another country but some things never change
Richard Lutz wanders through lost school hallways at his fiftieth class reunion
The Mayoral Race: Hustings Heaven
Richard Lutz joins the throng to listen to the six candidates for West Midlands mayor.
Letting Jeremy be Jeremy might be a bad idea
Will Mapplebeck wonders aloud about Jezza and his inability to find the killer comment.
Ask Howard: He answers the big questions
More hard-hitting answers from the Man in the Know.
Antony and Cleopatra at Stratford: Electric performance hampered by plodding plot
Richard Lutz takes his pew for the classic Shakespeare tragedy about love and lust when youth leaves the stage.
I Want, I Want: “a gallery of tomorrow’s dreams…”
Richard Lutz enters the digital world of new tech artists.
Gini out of the bottle
Will Mapplebeck reports on why inequality has levelled out – despite what the Left says.
Root problems and other tales
Richard Lutz painstakingly looks back in anguish at the week that was and a spring that will be.
Sir Howard’s Big Bumper Quiz Bonanza
He’ll answer your most tricky questions.
The banks that like to say theft- chapter 46
Richard Lutz on the Treasury and an industry fined £75 billion for fraud and stealing from its customers.
CBSO Spring Classics: “..a basket of favourites…”
Richard Lutz takes his pew for a Friday night that heralds a new season.
Screengrab: A gamine English star, a prickly Scot and Skelton Knaggs
Richard Lutz points the finger at a quartet of movies that will fill your crystal screen this week.
Now, let’s hold on for a minute
Richard Lutz warns that the Westminster attack should not start a rush to judgement.
Ballad of The Arousal Cafe – and other tales
Richard Lutz combs the smoking ruins of another seven days.
The strange state of a post-Scotland UK
Will Mapplebeck looks at a disunited Kingdom.
MK Ultra: “ A one way paranoid dance to the world of The Illuminati…”
Richard Lutz gets led into a bizarre twilight of half baked conspiracy theories at The Birmingham Rep that include Walt Disney, Justin Bieber and the CIA. Yes, really…
False truth crossing and other tales
Richard Lutz meanders through another miasmic week
Screengrab: When Mr Leech met Ms Scicilone
Richard Lutz dredges the tv movie schedules for the film you just gotta see Well, sport fans, there’s some real ugly junk on the box this week when it comes to movies- though there is a peep of light with a Muppets’ effort called Kermit: The Swamp Years (Thurs, Sky Family, 2.50AM).…
Notes from a small planet
Bob Densmore ponders the universe and words without meaning.
Putin: “Queen tapped my phone…she’s a bad dood”
Sir Howard Elston, our Royal reporter, with an exclusive that’ll rip your corgi to bits
Last train out, maps and other tales
Richard Lutz looks back in angst at the past week.
PMQs- It’s a joke and this is how it should change
Prime Minister’s Questions is nothing more than cliche time in Parliament, says political commentator Will Mapplebeck.
Howard exclusive: Trump globally lauded for righteous hack ban
Sir Howard Elston, our media reporter, on a secret report of who backs the Presidential ban on journalists