Music Reviews
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
Pain and glory
Roger Waters’ last stand in Madrid
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
Passion and percussion
Two tastes of Chinese culture in London
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Alban Berg: Violin concerto &c. (Chandos)
A stunning marriage of the tragic and the erotic
John Cage: Four Walls (Fuga Libera)
More than a little bit mad
Isabella Leonarda; A portrait (Brilliant Classics)
Passion and originality blossom behind the walls of the cloister
Has Badenoch peaked?
No one should assume they know who will be the next Conservative leader
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
Of mice and men and Magdalen
C. S. Lewis’s Oxford by Simon Horobin
The new men’s rights movement
For gender-critical feminists, TRAs can sometimes feel like MRAs with a modern twist
Posh pinks
Upscale rosés sans biodynamic woo-woo, please
Who hears the voiceless?
Leaving unborn children without legal protections would be an ethical disgrace
Planning for success
Even with its huge majority, Labour has a finite amount of political capital. It should spend a great deal of it on planning reform
This is what feminism looks like
“Gender critical” feminists have represented the best of feminism
Summer for sale
Cricket has always bent with the winds of change
The pitfalls of protecting beliefs
Parties should have the right to make foolish decisions about what ideas to exclude
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
