Wagner
Spare me the Great Canadian Warbler
Radio 4 celebrates the limited talents of Joni Mitchell
High-octane despair
Das Rheingold, Royal Opera House
The rise and fall of Prigozhin
How Wagner came down to earth
Freak shows
Horrors wrestled into being
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Ring of fire
The ENO’s production of The Valkyrie may lack flames, but it is convincing nonetheless
Wagner, restless provocateur
Wagner’s sexual ambiguity spoke to Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Thomas Mann, says Norman Lebrecht
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
You were warned
Badenoch’s election means bad news for the Tories
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
