Royal Opera House
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Bypassing the parasites
Too often, lawyers add little to business transactions except delays and questionable costs
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
An uneasy peace amid the ruins
Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Climate alarmism must not be unquestionable
We have succumbed to herd-like thinking over renewable energy
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)