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
Curiously inconsequential
Rodelinda, at Garsington Opera, lacks real attention to character or relationship
Bonfire of the vanities
The Covent Garden Semele uses the bad-faith tricks of the director’s shabby trade
Wagner saga just keeps on giving
Richard Wagner, it appears, had Nazism thrust upon him
Bum deal
The Queen of Spades, Garsington
The Merry Widow’s peak operetta
Who should we blame for art admired by monsters?
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Hippo critical
No Roman left a greater intellectual legacy than Augustine, whose writings shaped Christianity and the Western mind for more than a millennium
The global migration compact trap
The UN migration compact may be non-binding, but its political effects are very real
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Broken windows
If small instances of disorder are neglected, greater ones will soon be committed
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be