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
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The Conservative betrayal of selective schooling
Grammar schools are great — but there are not enough of them
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Rugby’s debt to Mrs T
Rugby league was transformed from a fringe working-class activity into part of national life
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
