Opera Holland Park
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
Eerie decadence
“Blink Twice” accelerates from black comedy to dark drama
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Kemi Badenoch has a problem with the truth
From wokeness, to housing, to immigration her words don’t match the facts
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
