Domesticating Wagner
A new production of Die Walküre is at odds with its music
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics