Opera Audiences
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
