On Opera
Divine trickery
Jephtha, Royal Opera House
Passionate subjectivity
La traviata, ENO, Coliseum
Missing the point
Why opera needs fictional dead women
Content warning
On triggering opera and Arts Council England
High-octane despair
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House
Bad-boy opera
Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast
The cat in a hat
A colourful glimpse into a dramatic feast of sex and death
Why it’s time to drop Don Giovanni
Mariame Clément’s new production of Don Giovanni falls prey to modern mores.
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
Let Poland be Poland
Westerners are treating the country as a blank ideological canvas
The Conservatives’ Windsor knot
Rishi Sunak must rethink the Windsor Framework
An unconventional (Re)Freshers’ Guide
How to be sane and subversive amid student life
The Dear Leader and the gnome
Friendship between the Kremlin and North Korea is no joke
Questions in the case of Indi Gregory
Was the evidence, and the law, as clear as it seemed?
Abuses of affirmation
Inside the communities of trans mums
The rise of Arabofuturism
History is being forged in the Middle East
Keir’s woman problem
Labour’s dishonest and weak handling of “the trans issue” hardly instils confidence that it will stand firm against sex denial extremists
The art world is eating itself
A culture of censorship has devolved into rival attempts at cancellation
Lovable losers
Can you let the country down and still be adored? Rishi hopes so
Suella Braveheart
Plucky rebel or wicked traitor? Either way, she isn’t taking any prisoners in her bid for the throne
