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
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
The UK’s war on free speech
Street violence is being met with restrictions on online speech by a Labour government desperate to clamp down on opinion
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
