The Critics
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
This century’s Great Composers
Hidden masterminds may yet revive the species
Black ops and a white-knuckle ride
Put your scepticism aside and buckle up for TV thrillers
A puzzling trip into Potter world
In search of complexity, Hilary Lloyd makes Dennis Potter’s vast oeuvre mysterious
The very curious case of Ethel Cain
A male idea of what it means to be female
All of a sudden … it’s Handel time!
Until about yesterday, “opera” meant “Romantic opera”
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
Please, no more “counter-culture”
The voice honed by experience is more necessary now than ever
The Spinal Tap reunion rocks
As with the original, at its heart this is a story about friendship
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Why left-wingers should care about borders
A welfare state, and social solidarity, depend on immigration restrictionism
The tyranny of memes
Modern would-be assassins are products of the internet
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Shabir Ahmed is a symptom
Deporting the grooming gang leader, while just, will not solve our problems
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?