Puccini
Bad-boy opera
Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
Free speech in free fall
As British freedoms are continually eroded, much of the liberty lobby seems to have nothing to say
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
The other Camus
The controversial author’s work is filled not just with anger but with autumnal regret
The meaning of Navalny’s death
This tragic event illustrates the cruelty and fragility of the Kremlin
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Weak, flawed, limited; an opportunity missed
Sanghera really should have devoted more attention to the pre-Western history in Empireworld
