Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
Addressing misogyny must include addressing trans activism
Against the wokewashing of sexual objectification
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
WW3 and the end of history
The age of world wars is past, the age of global civil war has come
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
Where is so much gender confusion coming from?
The scope of inquiry into gender and young people should be expanded to schools
Against stakeholderism
How ideas like “citizens’ assemblies” threaten democracy and effective policy-making
The dark threat of nitazenes
New opioids could pose a dramatic risk to British streets
There is no magic bullet for raising birth rates
A complex network of spiritual, cultural and economic factors underpin our fertility slump
