Jacques Offenbach
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Can Nigel Farage do his job?
Against the grim passivity of British politics
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
