Don’t sever the head
How the cultural shift and a departure from central purposes risks making the Church unrecognisable to the grassroots members who support it
Iron secretary
He didn’t quite dress up as Maggie, but he did everything but
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Red meat week?
Boris Johnson is reduced to conducting his publicity tours in secret
Universities are not counselling services
By expecting them to do everything, we forget their central purpose: education
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
A real world of consciousness
Communism in Poland was brought down by an underground network of learning, journalism and culture that flourished in defiance of state control
Will Sinn Fein paint the town green?
The nationalist party may triumph in the Stormont elections, but it could prove a hollow victory
Why is TalkTV failing?
Monotonous boomer bait creates apathy, not outrage
The death of Ideals
TikTok, goblin mode, and the end of Platonism
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
Joyous adventures in the absurd
A new performance of a Janacek opera takes one to the moon and back