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The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
The victorious sign
What relationship should Christianity have with politics?
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
The Roman roots of the English church
Perhaps two new church histories have a salutary message for today’s C of E
Covid amnesty for everyone but the politicians
MPs made their bed, but that doesn’t mean we have to lie in it
What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
The Great Vladsby
Like Gatsby, Putin’s self-destructive nostalgia will be his undoing
Should we take Kingsley Amis more seriously as a poet?
The acclaimed novelist harboured dreams of writing verse