Puccini
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Tosca without terror
Tosca, Royal Opera
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
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Hey, Starmer, leave those kids alone
Banning under-16s from social media is more prohibitionist stupidity
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Murders for May
From the spa resort of Buddington to the streets of Tokyo
Is it time to let the doctor die?
Doctor Who has become increasingly incoherent and increasingly ideological