Royal Opera House
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Theodora: an over-fussy feminist failure
With productions this bad, it is no surprise that nobody cares about opera
Extinction Rebellion, handmaiden of technocracy
There’s nothing natural about the environmentalism of modern eco activists
We need to crack down on illegal schools
Unregistered providers are endangering children and harming social cohesion
The last jubilee?
Many of us will never live to see a jubilee again — what will sustain the Windsors without spectacle?
Love letter to the printed word
On the material culture of the book
Britain has been betrayed
Our country’s fortunes aren’t falling — they were pushed
Unholy politics and a Christian exodus
Middle Eastern Christians are facing the threat of extinction
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
The final furlong
Horse racing is in existential crisis
The Good Friday Agreement is in peril
24 years on the treaty may be on the verge of collapse
Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club