Vladimir Bukovsky
Tristram and the tyrants
Laurence Sterne’s 250-year-old masterpiece is a radical, riotous celebration of liberty loathed by both Nazis and communists
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
Is Scottish independence really dead?
Labour’s “more devolution” policy will only strengthen the cause in the long term
Are private schools worth it?
Parental background has a bigger impact than education
The Tories are victims of themselves
It is futile to complain about the consequences of laws they have established or upheld
If you come at the king…
Trump’s response to being shot has affirmed his status as a Great Man of History
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Lettuce be, Liz
Liz Truss’s account of her woeful reign is packed with disingenuity and conceit