Opera Review
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
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
A manifesto for the fun police state
The IPPR recommendations would do more harm to your freedoms than good for your health
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Is Donald Trump the new Hillary Clinton?
His campaign is failing to reach out to enough voters
