Puccini
Bedlam bingo
Sex, death, sado-masochism and blasphemy in a heady cocktail
Bad-boy opera
Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
