Maria Callas
Missing the point
Why opera needs fictional dead women
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
Maligning the missionaries
Should the Church of England regret the promotion of Christianity?
Struggles of a veteran matador
Familiarity can make the heart grow cooler, but greatness can still prevail
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
