apocalypse
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Doomsday is not a day of the week
Sometimes, we dwell on tomorrow at the expense of eternity
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
Apocalypse soon?
Civilisations always rise and fall — ours is no exception
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
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
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote
to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Wragg must go
He should resign or be fired
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
