Haydn Middleton
A dramatisation of Haydn Middleton’s The Ballad of Syd & Morgan is on BBC Sounds.
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
Could Trump be a world leader?
His sense of his own importance might not be suited to isolationism
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
Sorry is the hardest word
In the wake of the Cass Report, the hordes are now looking for a face-saving way to recant
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
The follies of the wets
There is nothing “moderate” about the Tory centrists
The case against “Zero Seats”
Despite everything, some Conservatives still deserve to win