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Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Dirty business
The myriad wonders of garden soil
The phantom menace
Reports from the space opera of British politics
What if it is just a phase?
Our conception of ourselves is never wholly fixed
Why Orbán endures
Critics of the Hungarian government have to understand its popularity
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
The lockdown bonfire of Britain’s freedoms
The Government’s chaotic handling of the Covid-19 crisis resulted in an arbitrary rule by diktat of dubious legitimacy that should never be repeated
Swansongs and southern discomfort
Three new novels plough the furrow between popular and literary fiction
We missed the bus
Dreams of dispensing with the school run
Lola and the silence
French politicians cannot face facts
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
