Musical directors
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Donald Trump should not heed the call of foreign policy hawks
The world is not split neatly between good guys and bad guys
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
