Costa Book of the Year
Male authors: the sun also sets
Give up writing, men – the world will be a happier place when you do
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
