Gothic
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
A sense of palace
It’s apparently beyond us to fix one of the world’s greatest buildings
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
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
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We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home