The Critics
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
The YBAs in middle age
Where are the Young British Artists of Saatchi’s ‘Sensation’ now?
Insanity and death
Munch at the Musée D’Orsay
Ends of empires
Two compulsive, immersive and vivid end-of-empire series
Day of the junta
Political thrillers from South America
Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
A bumpy flight
Sheridan’s The Rivals plot is taken to different heights
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
