Matt Shapiro
Matt Shapiro is a writer and engineer.
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
The “shameless disrespect” of Judith Butler
The celebrated academic is too ideological to understand and accept different opinions
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
It’s our party and we’ll cry if we want to
Women face grim choices in the forthcoming election
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity