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
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The dam of Spanish eco-politics creaks
Will no death toll make elites reconsider green overreach?
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
A race to the bottom
Women should not give legitimacy to an appalling platform
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
All gone to look for America
The show is a mishmash, in need of some pruning and a sharper edge
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
