Madame Butterfly
Music to die for
The elegant narrative solution of suicide has had no greater cheerleader than opera
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
