Tosca
Bad-boy opera
Tosca, Grand Opera House, Belfast
Pulp Puccini
Having the hots for Tosca
Pity and terror
A powerful, moving adaptation of Puccini
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
A right to protest?
The right to dissent is often at odds with the will of the mob
Trouble beneath the surface
Labour’s triumph obscures worrying signs of division and chaos brewing in British society
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Doubting the new Ireland
The more traditions have been deconstructed, the more people have experienced a sense of loss
Playing politics
Parliament was at its most preposterous today
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
