The Critics
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The childishness of republicanism
Lidia Thorpe’s outburst is no reflection of the Australian attitudes towards the King
