Mozart
All’s fair in love
Così fan tutte, English National Opera, Coliseum
Show me what love is
Don Giovanni, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Adulterating Amadeus
A new series does an injustice to Mozart, Shaffer, Forman and TV in general
Castanets in her socks
Martha Argerich Edition (Warner Classics, 46 CDs)
Opera as it should be
This, at last, is what the English National Opera is for
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Peston’s Inbox
Kemi doesn’t give her kids Easter eggs
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Drill, baby, drill
We need Cornish lithium and tin just as much as North Sea oil — whatever the nimbys say
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori