Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Britain’s first postmodern election
What Galloway’s victory really tells us about Britain
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Stop blaming Brexit for Britain’s economic ills
It is not only wrong — it distracts us from our real problems
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
No, Liz Truss did not crash the economy
The Conservatives should be brave enough to take on this stupid talking point
All smoke and no fire
An Impact Assessment on prohibiting cigarettes is unconvincing
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
