North England
Beyond satire
Opera North and English Touring Opera have plied an honourable trade without trying to gain kudos
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
