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
Is university still worth it?
Rising fees raise questions about the value of some degrees
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
