Review
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Two essays in excellence
The BBC at its best on Shakespeare, and remembering Barry Humphries.
These children did not matter
A fine film exposes grooming gangs and their enablement
Insanity and death
Munch at the Musée D’Orsay
John Adams: Slonimsky’s Earbox (Alpha)
Among his best work
The art of influence
Culture and propaganda are not easily separable
The timelessness of Henry Moore
How a modernist bogeyman became an Old Master
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Conservatives can no longer trust institutions
Institutions are only as effective as the people within them and the culture beyond them
