Opera Review
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
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Art: my part in its downfall
Pierre d’Alancaisez was part of the
contemporary art world’s inner circle until
he saw the error of his ways
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
A below-par Riley is still better than most
The Palm House by
Gwendoline Riley; My Death by Lisa
Tuttle; Still Talking by Lore Segal
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?