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There’s no case for mask mandates
We cannot trust models based on bogus assumptions
The Rosetta Stone belongs in London
It does not belong to modern Egypt
Not necessarily the end of the world
The biggest existential threat to humans is now humanity
Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
My “debunked” views
A response to an attempted cancellation
Against a stone wall
The gender debate has already been won
Kanye West and celebrity
Celebrities have always existed to be made examples of
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
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
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Not so good after all
Can left-leaning journalists finally acknowledge the challenges British society faces?
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran