The Premiere of Handel’s Messiah
This oratorio, a familiar part of both the Christmas and Easter seasons, has a fascinating history.
This oratorio, a familiar part of both the Christmas and Easter seasons, has a fascinating history.
Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity.
Fairy parties and flying reindeer are not things out of which eventually we must grow; they belong to the realm inhabited only by those who are mature enough to understand the world for what it is.
In our nihilistic age, Boito’s Mefistofele may be primed for a comeback.
Why has Hungary, after delivering significant reforms, only received €10 billion from the Commission?
Perhaps the Italian PM’s trust in her advisors has led to her frequent quotation from The Lord of the Rings: “Deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
The British politician’s conservative vision for Britain is far richer in its confidence than its advice.
Migration begets more migration.
Pedro Sánchez’s socialist government will have expensive delicacies and a €2 million catering budget for official flights.
We must refute the myth that Muslim-occupied medieval Spain was a bastion of peace and multiculturalism.
Pedro Sánchez’s socialist government will have expensive delicacies and a €2 million catering budget for official flights.
We must refute the myth that Muslim-occupied medieval Spain was a bastion of peace and multiculturalism.
Violence and death threats against teachers refute the myth of schools as sanctuaries.
Left-wing politicians and others have expressed outrage over the law and declared Italy is a secular state.
The Italian Right and its allies want to bring its model of unity government to the European Union.
In Sonnez les Matines, humor most truly speaks of weighty matters.
Past Swedish governments have had a penchant for driving up inflation with tax hikes; will Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s government make better policy decisions?
Faust’s salvation, as with humanity’s, comes only in time.
Deserting Israel means abandoning our own democratic values and siding with barbarism against civilisation.
Charges include Islamic State recruitment and radicalisation, conspiracy to murder, and ‘terrorist self-training.’
Top court rejects claim that the cross infringes on religious freedom.
Miriam Cates, one of the Tories’ New Conservatives, is barred from discussing the allegations against her.