The Critics
Poor old Carmen
This update of a classic from the Royal Opera House is a reminder of why messing with great pieces is so risky
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The UK’s messiest election ever?
Trying to predict the results of the next election is a mug’s game
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive