Rigoletto
Do not go gently
Opera has treated the subject of cancelling the pleasures of others in some depth
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Why shouldn’t we discriminate against people’s beliefs?
It is not the same as discriminating on the basis of race or sex
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
