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
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
In praise of Elon Musk
He deserves respect for his defence of free expression online
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
