Wagner
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 progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
Women’s rights shouldn’t be up for debate
MPs need to stop questioning the rights of biological women
How do you solve a problem like the protocol?
The apotheosis of Johnsonism
Restaurant porn
Dress it up however you want: Hooters is selling sex
Independence: a two-way street
Both judges and politicians must respect long-standing constitutional conventions
Housing hypocrisy
The mainstream parties are betraying the aspirations of young people
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
A real nice clambake
The American classic is fine street-party fare
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?