Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming: Voice of Nature, The Anthropocene (Decca)
Beauty released by the singer’s larynx is met by plodding fingers on a monochrome keyboard
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Keir Starmer is causing trouble over the Troubles
The government should stop caving in over Northern Ireland legacy issues
We need a loud revival
The dream of a “quiet revival” always misunderstood the problem faced by British Christians
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
Metamorphoses at the
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The malignant mediocrity of managerialism
A country ruled by lawyers and HR managers will be culturally desiccated and politically sclerotic