Opera Holland Park
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
The reality of tobacco control
To have a law does not mean that it will be respected
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
Between the devil and the deep blue sea
A substantial and growing minority of Americans hate both presidential candidates
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
Vanishing act
Jeremy Hunt did not, in fact, pull a rabbit out of his hat
Time for realpolitik in Israel
Britain’s foreign policy in the Middle East should put British interests first
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
