Opera Fringe
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
Ship of fools
A summer of ecstatic, eccentric and not-so-operatic audiences at opera fringe
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
The thin blue line must be thicker
The police are nothing without a presence in communities
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working