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
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
The bizarre campaign against Physician Associates
The interests of doctors are being elevated above the interests of patients
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The afterlife of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko
Reflections on forty years since his death shook communist Poland
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
