The start of the new opera season this year replicates one of those post-apocalyptic movies with rag-clad wretches staggering from their caves to check out the smoking wasteland outside.
Of course, this is also literally true of everything in the country after thirteen years of the Era of Gove, Conservative rule now in effect one of those futuristic flying creatures in Terminator that has simply to turn its eye on any given thing for it to be reduced immediately to death and ash (“levelling-up”).
What’s heartening about the British
