Opera
The shepherd’s dream
Giustino, Linbury Theatre
With friends like these …
Opera’s wild vicissitudes of fortune under both Labour and the Conservatives
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
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
Bum deal
The Queen of Spades, Garsington
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The last true Kapellmeister
Chaotic in all things except music, where he demanded precision and gave his all
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The shape of a different Britain
Early modernist homes in Frinton-on-Sea capture a moment of confidence in a rapidly changing world
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Antisemitism and the Islamic connection
Antisemitic sentiments in Islamic theology cannot be overlooked or obscured
The summer chill
Cool soups for hot days
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense