Handel
Divine trickery
Jephtha, Royal Opera House
A celebration of redemption
Handel: Israel in Egypt (Avie)
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Into the mystic
Contemporary debates over the “suitability” of many operas leaves us with only English productions
Foreign frivolity
Robert Thicknesse on how the idea that foreign poetry was better than local soon became established dogma
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Are all Christians monks?
George Guiver’s book exudes down-to-earthiness, bordering on irreverence
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
November Letters
Aiming for the rescue and rebuilding of liberal capitalism
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
