On Opera
Schlock of the new
Those in charge are in thrall to vain provocateur directors
Naughty but nice
Every six months or so opera surfaces from its undersea lair, like a Bond villain, to enter public consciousness — generally when it’s been naughty.
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Form your battalions!
France, for all its flaws, still converts military spending into power — Britain does not
It’s time to ban the Brotherhood
Britain can no longer afford to ignore the Muslim Brotherhood’s quiet but far-reaching influence
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership