Thomas Kyd wasn’t a patch on Shakespeare
Brian Vickers aims to ‘restore’ Kyd to greatness — but claiming too much on too little evidence does the playwright no favors
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Saturday
Monday
Most-read 2024: Can Meghan and Harry stoop any lower?
There’s a whiff of Sunset Boulevard about the isolated pair as they flail around wondering where to go next
Friday
Ian McKellen's comments about the Queen are a step too far
In a candid interview that he has given to the Times, the actor has labeled the late Queen both rude and borderline insane
Tuesday
Trump was 'very rude', thought Queen
A few weeks after President Trump’s visit, she confided her views in one lunch guest
Thursday
King Charles’s deeply moving D-Day speeches
The monarch spoke, intelligently and affectingly, about how D-Day represented the finest hour that Churchill had promised his people
Wednesday
What’s really behind the Tories’ present woes?
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s Bloody Panico! is an amusing, though somewhat rancorous book
Wednesday
Will anything reconcile William and Harry?
There remains little chance that the brothers will patch up their relationship
Friday
Parliament’s poignant tributes to the Queen
That so many people have wanted to say something about how the Queen touched their lives, whether or not they met her, shows quite how powerful her service was. The tributes this afternoon in the House of Commons were moving because they showed the breadth of that service, from the way she carried out her constitutional duties with the government to her personal impact on many members of the House. When parliament pays tribute to someone who has just died, the cloying phrase ‘it was the House at its best’ quickly emerges. This is self-regarding, because what today’s tributes showed was not the best bits of MPs but the best
Thursday
Britain will now enter ten days of mourning
When word of the Queen’s illness spread, the House of Commons quickly emptied. Liz Truss had just announced her fuel bills bailout, one of the most expensive measures in British history. It was about to be eclipsed. The death of the Queen, who appointed Liz Truss as her 15th Prime Minister just two days ago, marks the end of what history will likely judge as one of, if not the most, successful reigns in a millennium of British history. This is where the country’s thoughts will now turn. The relationship between the country and the Queen is something quite extraordinary, something far beyond the realms or understanding of politics. The
