Gilbert and Sullivan
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
