Review
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
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
Champagne in the membrane
Alcohol is not a major risk factor for dementia
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Money troubles
At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The riots and the social media blame game
Politicians blaming social media for the riots are hiding from state failings
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Trump’s first gambit fails
The Republican candidate was not as effective on the debate stage as he anticipated
