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
Political parties should be broad churches, not sects
We should welcome diversity of opinion among MPs
Ending Britain’s childcare arms race
What is the end goal of extending childcare provision?
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
The geopolitical prescience of Handel
On opera’s flirtation with current affairs
Feminism has a women problem
Debates about sex and gender have exposed the significance of intrasexual disagreement
Murders for February
Hitler, Harlem and the high-life feature in this month’s murder mystery haul
Do women-only sports categories matter if you’re rubbish?
You don’t have to excel at something for it to be important to your identity
Do not sanction the truth
Stating biological facts should not be cause for heavy-handed complaints proceedings
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Victims of ME deserve better than dopey Dragons and ear seeds
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same