Mozart
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
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Against gorpcore
We have to develop and embrace aesthetics that inspire the imagination
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Mirabel Chevenix
Grande dame
Giving noticing a bad name
Observing factual differences is not the same as leaping to conclusions
