Wagner
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
Boris vs Johnson
One is a feel-good gung-ho funster, the other man has to actually run the place
The grim truth about social care
We need to restore a sense of generational solidarity
Sturgeon on the hook
Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill promises a difficult year ahead for the woman who self-identifies as “feminist to my fingertips”
TikTok time bomb
Schools across the UK have been targeted by anonymous TikTok accounts where pupils rate and defame their teachers
Cross wires
For Britain it’s sovereignty, for the EU it’s a niggle around sausages
A matter of judgement
One man’s observance of the spirit is another’s technical breach
Forgive me
Can Peppa Pig save Boris from the CBI?
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be
It’s not that life is perfect — it just isn’t the 70s
Cardinal Newman
The apostate saint
See no evil
Rampant sexual violence begins with porn use and ends in the death of women and girls
Failed state
How history makes rioters of the French