Glyndebourne
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
Content warning
On triggering opera and Arts Council England
Serve up a symphony
Simplicity is best for a Glyndebourne picnic
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
Whip smart
Threatening the whipping system would be alarmingly stupid
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within