Mozart
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Why it’s time to drop Don Giovanni
Mariame Clément’s new production of Don Giovanni falls prey to modern mores.
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Do not go gently
Opera has treated the subject of cancelling the pleasures of others in some depth
Men beware women
How we underestimate the women in Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
