Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Sack the lot at rotten Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is drowning in a puddle of self-willed mediocrity
An American’s excellent essays
A set of fine programmes on the American bohemians who brought to life a great city on the cusp of significant change
When Great Lives grates
Tales of lives lived well, or disgracefully, are always interesting, but what makes a good obit?
Clearly raising the tone
What makes the perfect radio voice?
Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
The oh-so clever life of O’Brien
James O’Brien’s LBC morning show is a thundering, sanctimonious bore
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
We’ve had enough agitslop
British TV drama has become an embarrassing display of liberal neuroses
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.