Brixton
The guns of Brixton
I listened to somebody shoot a man twice in the head
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
