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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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
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Civilisation needs silence
On cooing babies and other noisy performances
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Rendering the word of God in English
500 years ago, William Tyndale published his groundbreaking New Testament translation
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Soft competition
There are participation prizes to everyone at the Venice Biennale
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again