ENO
Into the mystic
Contemporary debates over the “suitability” of many operas leaves us with only English productions
Ring of fire
The ENO’s production of The Valkyrie may lack flames, but it is convincing nonetheless
Was postwar Britain as grey and dull as everyone thinks?
A new exhibition at the Barbican sheds light on the forgotten decade
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
News from nowhere
National Conservatism Conference diary: our brave reporter encounters globalisation in Brussels
Who actually got Brexit done?
Mark Francois’s Brexit book is a timely corrective to the Cummings narrative
Ruff day at the NEC
Crufts is less about the dogs than it is their human owners
Whitehall’s whispering mandarin
A tribute to Sir Roy Stone, whose secretive role at the heart of Westminster made government possible
The Critic Books Podcast: Stewkey Blues
DJ Taylor’s new collection of short stories
Going to the ends of the earth
A thrilling story of machismo, mutiny and madness in the Pacific
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake
The trans fairy tale
Pink News is shamelessly exploiting the “authentic self” to sell mastectomies to young people
Does Sadiq Khan think he’s living in America?
The mayor of London should focus on representing the city that elected him