Review
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
Genuine English opera
‘Peter Grimes’ labours under the weight of national anxieties
Two-tier justice in Northern Ireland
Why do only some killings deserve investigation?
Eyes on a miserly prize
It’s not just owners who are being fleeced
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try to subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
The secret war of a wolf in chic clothing
Dudley Clarke had his fingers in many of the most interesting pies of covert operations in World War II
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
Composed and electrifying
Klaus Tennstedt: The Radio Broadcasts (Doremi, 4CDs)
