Turn of the Screw
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The roots of hatred
Antisemitism, an ancient subject, has once again become a hot topic
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
What’s in a name?
Britain’s debate over assisted suicide is being conducted in language designed to obscure what is actually proposed
Too starstruck to see Marilyn’s faults
Only Some Like It Hot endures, though not because of anything Monroe does in it
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran