Femicide
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
Missing the point
Why opera needs fictional dead women
Better men in prison than women in morgues
The feminist fix: Violent men — not alcohol, unemployment, COVID or stress — kill women
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
