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
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
Tinker Bell, Puck, Dobby & Co.
An account of everything even the most dedicated fairy-follower could want to discover
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
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Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Running down the clock
Does Keir Starmer have any plans for his final weeks in Downing Street?
After the flood
Net migration may be falling, but the long tail of Britain’s recent immigration regime ensures the debate is far from over
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian