Opera
Bring on the dinosaurs
For hardcore old opera buffers, there are still a few places of refuge
Puncturing the toxic myth of “elitism”
No art form is more subtle, more visceral, more preposterous and more life-affirming than opera
Expensive thrills
Turandot, Royal Opera
Relationship status: it’s complicated
Partenope, English National Opera, Coliseum
Case closed
The Makropulos Case, Royal Opera
Nun gives new opera mass appeal
Heggie’s secret in Dead Man Walking is that operatic music doesn’t actually have to be much good
The nun’s tale
Dead Man Walking, English National Opera, Coliseum
All of a sudden … it’s Handel time!
Until about yesterday, “opera” meant “Romantic opera”
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
With friends like these …
Opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Supernatural delight
Religion cannot be reduced to dry abstractions
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.