Declaime

"Two houses, both alike in dignity . . ." Read More

For those yet to witness its modest splendour – a very short series went out in February after the live show went down well at the Edinburgh Festival – it goes like this: quiz master Key (from BBC4's Cowards and Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe) shoots in and out of a trapdoor on a leather chair like a cuckoo in a clock. Read More

The Pittsburgh Symphony's annual presentation of George Frideric Handel's "Messiah" was no pro forma affair Friday night. Read More

"I think compulsory retirement ages are a nonsense," declaims the new shadow minister for seniors, and the great, gritty survivor of conservative politics, Bronwyn Bishop. Read More

Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, holding forth in Parliament, made sure, in signature style, that he had everyone's attention — peppering his long extempore with jokes and pokes at other MPs. Read More

Council tax, paid by all of us, is a relatively regressive tax which hits plenty of workers and families who can ill-afford it. Read More

Edward Albee's 1994 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama about the three generations of a woman's life is classic, riveting theater. Read More

If there was ever a man capable of betraying the true sentiments of the contemporary British political class post-MPs' expenses scandal, it would have to be John Bercow. Read More

Tomorrow is the deadline for the filing of candidacies for the May 2010 elections. Read More