Royal Opera
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Genuine English opera
‘Peter Grimes’ labours under the weight of national anxieties
Into the mystic
Contemporary debates over the “suitability” of many operas leaves us with only English productions
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
A recipe for decline
This budget will do nothing to lift Britain from its doldrums
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
