Alexandra Coghlan
Alexandra Coghlan is a classical music journalist. She tweets at @AlexaCoghlan
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
Justice over the internet
Civil cases could soon be resolved quickly and cheaply through online “portals”
The progressive war on sex
New norms around “consent” are aimed at destroying the miracle of intimacy
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait
Putin’s big parade
Campaign Diary: Expect extra chest-thumping on “Soviet Victory Day”
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse
The religion of self-worship
Rowan Williams calls it a “sacred journey” — but trans ideology is a new faith altogether