BBC Singers
Selling the jewels
Auntie has gone mad and is auctioning off the family silver
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Nigel’s knees-up
Can Reform become a serious contender for power?
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Will Starmer’s immigration gambit backfire?
The prime minister might have opened a box that he cannot close
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
