Opera
Family matters
Jephtha, Il Pomo d’Oro, Barbican
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
Dogme drama Festen adapted for stage
How gratuitous would everyone would have found this if the film had never existed?
Bane sailing
There’s got to be some sort of price to pay for being so fabulous
On “Festen” and forgetting
The latest production of the Royal Opera was gripping but occasionally unconvincing
This earthy opera is a real sob story
I have seen seven different productions of Jenůfa and I never fail to be overcome
Can arias ever be the reel deal?
Most film adaptations have been pale imitations weighed down with charmless music
Opera as it should be
This, at last, is what the English National Opera is for
Feminist rehab for mean girl Mahler
You’d have thought the Head Muse of old Vienna had enough on her plate
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
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
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
A win for academic freedom
The university free speech complaints scheme is (finally) going ahead