Opera Rara
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
The sacrifice that changed Naipaul
The humiliation of his father, forced to slaughter a goat to atone for
angering Hindus, made the writer wary of insulting religion
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
The Real shooting match
Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken