body shaming
Why are TRAs body-shaming J.K. Rowling?
In the discourse about “TERFs”, vicious misogyny is never far from the surface
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
