Opera Audiences
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Two-tier immigration?
Britain has its border priorities out of whack
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Donald Trump is a wake-up call for Europe
We cannot complacently depend on the US
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
