Peter Pears
Mahler’s pioneers
Walter Goehr and Willem Mengelberg revive Mahler’s genius
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The mother of all U-turns
Kemi Badenoch discovered that backing wars and opposing petrol prices is harder than it looks
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
An unholy war
Donald Trump is damaging America as well as Iran
No bullshit government
Tom Jones grills the shadow minister for
policy renewal about the plans of a
future Tory administration
Where are Britain’s moral voices?
On decriminalising abortion up to birth, the Archbishop of Canterbury must talk the talk, not walk the walk
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
The government must end its war on the price mechanism
The government is stubbornly ignoring the harms and risks of its interventions into markets