Flickering with fire and ice
Beethoven: 1st piano concerto, &c (DG)
Is the party over for festivals?
Why music festivals have lost their purpose
The world’s last measured moments
Joseph Haydn: Symphonies 93-95
A chronicle of gratitude and ambivalence
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 12th symphony/Dawn (Chandos)
Mahler: Symphonies 1, 2 and songs (various labels)
The highs and lows of following a great
The ultimate collaborator
Sergio Tiempo: Hommage (Avanti)
Too light by half
Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights (Chandos)
The end of the Emersons
Infinite Voyage: Emerson Quartet (Alpha Classics)
Immense energies
Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano concertos &c (Ondine)
In the family
A rare contrast of composers
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Tierless? (Starmer’s version)
Taxpayer-funded escorts for celebrities, criminal neighbours for normal Brits
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
Is this what winning looks like?
Reform UK supporters are growing weary of infighting and weak rhetoric
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
