Metric System
Measure for measure
Give the imperial system its due weight and worth
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
