Marble Ah.
The new Marble Arch reminds me of that Cristiano Ronaldo statue
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Tragicomedy at the UN
The limp United Nations cannot be trusted to support the victims of tyranny
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
Stopping the devolution ratchet
More devolution will not solve the worst consequences of devolution
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
Why the Voice failed
The Australian establishment has been too focused on symbolic gestures rather than practical change
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
The lonely end of a political failure
Leo Varadkar rode to power on a wave of optimism and is disappearing in a puff of disaffection
