Covent Garden
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
An effortful opera
A fun but difficult production of Il Trovatore
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
Verdi shines, despite everything
A gloomy production of a glittering opera
Theodora: an over-fussy feminist failure
With productions this bad, it is no surprise that nobody cares about opera
How about some vistas of beauty?
Covent Garden’s first post-lockdown offering is in a long, grim tradition
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
The futility of safeguards for assisted suicide
Lessons from Belgium and the Netherlands
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
