Opera Review
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Show me what love is
Don Giovanni, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Relationship status: it’s complicated
Partenope, English National Opera, Coliseum
Case closed
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
Tosca without terror
Tosca, Royal Opera
Me and my gull
Seagull: True Story, Marylebone Theatre
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Empire State Madrid
Can a stagnant Spain rediscover the future? Hope lies with its capital
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
Saved from the flames
We should feel fortunate indeed to have the Aeneid
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Britain should speak up for Egypt’s persecuted Christians
We should oppose blasphemy laws at home and abroad
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground
Game of Thrones star steals the show
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