Opera Review
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Off with the fairies
Unsurprisingly, the most brilliant of all English music-theatre pieces are mostly overlooked
Operettas for the apocalypse
As we career merrily ever deeper into the end-times, what is the appropriate soundtrack for civilisational collapse?
Divine trickery
Jephtha, Royal Opera House
Passionate subjectivity
La traviata, ENO, Coliseum
High-octane despair
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House
Bad-boy opera
Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast
An effortful opera
A fun but difficult production of Il Trovatore
Proper pro opera
Fun with fear and failure
Just do the bloody show
Rusalka, Royal Opera House
Dune and progressive media illiteracy
Leftist moralism obscures thematic depth in its frantic rush to judge
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
Leaving Kindland, entering reality
“Being kind” at the expense of truth and reason can make us nothing of the kind
Why we should resist this “conversion therapy” ban
It would enshrine dubious claims as unarguable facts, and it endangers freedom and young people
Death by a thousand regulations
British politicians are allowing unnecessary laws to ruin civil society
The 15-minute bait and switch
15-minute cities mean restricted freedom and a town hall traffic-fine bonanza
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
Against Britain’s two-tier policing
Street preachers should not be arrested for offending people
Rishi goes a-wooin’
The Prime Minister was an extremely nervous suitor trying to impress some very sceptical rural in-laws
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
