Opera Audiences
Dogme drama Festen adapted for stage
How gratuitous would everyone would have found this if the film had never existed?
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Price caps and political pygmies
Britain’s capitalist command economy cannot let businesses be
Has the arts sector learned nothing?
Tripling down on identity politics and censoriousness would be fatal