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Twilight of the gods
The eclipse of the gilded 1980s generation can be seen as a welcome changing of the guard
No golden years
A tragedy in four words: Baby Boomer, still working
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Gelding: the pros
Bring back the castratos? Might as well
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Rebus at the school of hard Knox
The tropes are popular, because they work
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Unusual summer reds
Think exotic spices, maraschino cherries and curly shoes
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
Welcome to the low-trust economy
The multi-billion pound cost of Britain’s shoplifting surge
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
What does it mean to be free?
Women are caught between different experiences of freedom and loss
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
We can restrict doctors’ strikes
Well-paid doctors should not be allowed to endanger patients uninhibited