On Opera
Wagner saga just keeps on giving
Richard Wagner, it appears, had Nazism thrust upon him
Bum deal
The Queen of Spades, Garsington
Domesticating Wagner
A new production of Die Walküre is at odds with its music
The Merry Widow’s peak operetta
Who should we blame for art admired by monsters?
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
Dogme drama Festen adapted for stage
How gratuitous would everyone would have found this if the film had never existed?
Bane sailing
There’s got to be some sort of price to pay for being so fabulous
Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
Opera as it should be
This, at last, is what the English National Opera is for
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Pick up sticks
Christopher Pincher saunters around
town with a stylish walking cane
Are automated auctions on the way?
New technology has a double edge
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
How to be a populist in the art world
A recent conference on populism exposed the extent to which the art world talks around actually existing people
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Nowhere left to go
Labour is running out of cash, authority and time.
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
Women should not have to apologise for their rights
There is nothing cruel about women wanting single-sex spaces