Ten years after the transparency acts forced the Assembly to legislate in public, the deal-making that once ran this country has not disappeared. It has changed shape — and changed who holds power.
The press-freedom bill passed at 4:12am by the narrowest possible margin. Our correspondent spent the night in the chamber. This is how it happened.
A leaked archive of ministerial messages reveals how the governing coalition actually makes decisions — and how little of it happens in the rooms designed for the purpose.
The National’s revival of “The Glass Diplomat” has been celebrated as a triumph of staging. Its real subject is the performer the audience almost never sees.
A new national gallery has hung its collection with no chronology, no nations and no wall text. Curators call it radical. Visitors, so far, call it a relief.
A conductor’s experiment in playing without sheet music has produced the most talked-about season in the philharmonic’s history — and a quiet argument about what memory does to music.
