The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
All of a sudden … it’s Handel time!
Until about yesterday, “opera” meant “Romantic opera”
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
Tosca without terror
Tosca, Royal Opera
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
The decline of British food culture
The products of social media virality and high street homogenisation leave the ambitious diner as cold as a neglected jacket potato
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be