Review
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
A controversial opening
I love the idea of the Vagina Museum, I just don’t love this vagina museum
Heartless Heights
Brontë’s lines anchor the frenetic action in Emma Rice’s over-the-top production
Breathtaking… and empty
The formidably long run-time of Dune leaves viewers with little world-building and a lack of colour
Friggitelli with Rosie
Lisa Hilton falls for the rustic charms and continental cuisine of a perfect English pub
Back to the wall
Despite the fact East Germany has disappeared, it continues to live on in this outstanding trilogy
Finn noir
A Bergmanesque miasma of gloom hangs over every episode in this new Scandinavian thriller
Thanks for not sharing
Lisa Hilton says tapas are over-hyped, over-priced and have overstayed their welcome
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Prosthetic, pathetic, human
Angela de la Cruz’s playful and ghastly art touches a raw nerve
Stop saying sectarianism
Britain’s emerging politics are not really sectarian at all, but the result of neo-communal fragmentation
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
Literary freedom is in the gutter
The disappearance of a praiseful review for a “cancelled” writer is as disturbing as it is bizarre
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
How the Boat Race sank
Yet another great British tradition is disappearing beneath the waters of history
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting