Madame Butterfly
Music to die for
The elegant narrative solution of suicide has had no greater cheerleader than opera
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The lonely death of Henry Nowak
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Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
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The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain
Two faces of America
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Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Eric Snapper
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The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation