Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.

Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’

Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot

We should change the way we commemorate our war dead

Watching Lord Pannick QC addressing 11 justices of the Supreme Court is like watching one of the great maestros conducting a symphony orchestra

The ban on climbing Australia’s most famous landmark will do nothing to help the Aborigines it purports to protect

Ethical values and financial necessity are not always perfectly compatible

Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’

Douglas Murray reviews ‘Old House of Fear’ by Russell Kirk

Where are the plays that challenge the orthodoxy of left-liberal groupthink?