The disgrace of ACE
Arts Council England has failed to support artists and art
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Modernists can be monarchists
Radical composers are not out to smash the system
Reconstructing a self-destructive life
One thing in Roth’s messy existence makes him worth our time: his writing
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
Last swipe at the Proms
Is it time to give a grudging nod of acknowledgement to the BBC Proms?
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Digging the Holy Land’s past
Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
