Welsh National Opera
WNO’s curtain call?
Behind the ovations for Britten’s masterpiece looms the death of opera in Wales
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
Dear Prudence
A reflection on the Tory Party’s historic suspicion of interventionism
The soul of Putin
Twenty-five years after George W. Bush first looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes, the Russian president has changed less than America would like to believe
In praise of the English football fan
No one likes them, they don’t care — and good for them
Information rage
Jacob Siegel’s new book The Information State is profound and troubling
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The joys of village cricket
Cricket embodies much of what is valuable about our culture
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
Ice and fire
Ben Stokes has had a truly exceptional career