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 tide has turned on abortion
The overturning of Roe v Wade is an opportunity for the UK to reflect on its own abortion laws
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
St George didn’t die for this
English nationalism is a paper dragon
Ladies don’t lunch
Dining in style at a quirky and captivating roadside osteria in Italy’s Balkan borderlands
The Queen’s Jubilee Book List: why did they bother?
The choices show a lack of levity, imagination and courage
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
Justin Trudeau’s heartless hypocrisy
Has the Canadian premier’s shameful silence been bought with Tigray gold?
I am big, it’s freesat that got small
Rob Hutton takes dictation, very carefully, from our new proprietor
The uses and abuses of nostalgia
The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too
Is cultural conservatism the key to educational success?
Culture beats race and even class when it comes to pupil performance
Too dangerous to live with
There’s no realist case for the lurking risk of nuclear armageddon