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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
These green and printed lands
How William Caxton developed Englishness, and how his Englishness is breaking down
Restore the King James Bible
Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken
It’s what you Makerfield of it
Andy Burnham may yet stop Reform, but victory would raise almost as many questions for Labour as defeat.
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
