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
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
Hatred without end
A year on from October 7th, mutual dehumanisation and refusal of moral responsibility characterises our “debate” over the Gaza war
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
