2 FEBRUARY 2008, page 48

Britten Surprises

Michael Tanner Peter Grimes Opera North O f all Britten’s operas Peter Grimes is the one I have seen most often, and it remains not only the one that I find it hardest to make......

Reasons For Hope

Kate Chisholm ‘ P akistan is a dysfunctional state,’ said the writer Martin Amis in a debate about ideologies and ideologues in our post-9/11 world on Start the Week (Monday,......

Cult Viewing

Simon Hoggart ‘S hut up and drink the Kool-Aid’ is an American slang phrase — tart, cynical and funny — used for telling people to get on with something they must do but would......