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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Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The masculinity crisis is a porn crisis
We have to do more to challenge the reshaping of culture by pornography
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
The promises of politicians
We are surrounded by lies, euphemisms and deceit
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Anyone could have predicted
Left-leaning commentators should not pretend to be surprised by the consequences of multiculturalism
