Gothic
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
An effortful opera
A fun but difficult production of Il Trovatore
Happy Gothmas
Get your festive Morticia Addams on
Our deepest, darkest fears
The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
Doublespeak about assisted suicide
The campaign for assisted suicide is distinctly Orwellian
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Biden’s legacy of escalation
His last decisions could determine the state of global politics
