George Frideric Handel
Getting a handle on Handel
Robert Thicknesse and friends reflect on Handel and his heyday
Relationship status: it’s complicated
Partenope, English National Opera, Coliseum
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
Bring back the song-and-dance men
The brilliance of an overlooked generation of 18th century English music makers
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Wildest dreamland
It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Terry tackles literary lightweights
Is a distinguished professor right to hold intellectual biography in low esteem?
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion