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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The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
A bewitching Sink drama
Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe make Shakespeare compelling for Gen Z
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
Baddiel shoots, he doesn’t score
If you want to understand English football, you will get better answers knocking on doors in Burnley than Hampstead
Why do we hate industry?
Performative laissez-faire has been a failure. It’s time for a new policy
Lost railway art
Art should matter in all its guises, above and below ground