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
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
The paper tiger and the Russian bear
NATO’s naive and supine response will not drive Putin’s army from Ukraine and emboldens Moscow still further
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The invasiveness of voice notes
Don’t send them, and if you must send them keep them short
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Dial S for screen time
These middle-class tweens being forbidden phones have had iPads since they were six
