On Opera
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
Spring to life
April in London has a number of operatic things that look kind of fun
Going for a song
In true bel canto, the only important thing is the voice, the song
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
Beyond satire
Opera North and English Touring Opera have plied an honourable trade without trying to gain kudos
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Verdi shines, despite everything
A gloomy production of a glittering opera
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
