Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline

Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform

Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead

Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her

Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose

Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics

The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details

Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care

A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead

If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down