Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom

It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying

Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?

I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness

Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)

We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics

Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp

Tales from the gothic to the macabre

The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy

As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation