W. Sydney Robinson
W. Sydney Robinson is a biographer and teacher based in Northamptonshire @WSydneyRobinson
The Dresser Undressed
The delicate process of writing the biography of a wary Sir Ronald Harwood
Arthur Bryant’s floating doters
W. Sydney Robinson, the historian’s latest biographer, discovered that his subject was without scruple in matters of the heart
A commanding life
Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius. By Iskander Rehman
What have the Romans ever done for us?
Apart from the aqueducts, sanitation, roads, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public baths and town planning
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
At least somebody’s having fun
Ed Davey grows more cheerful the sadder Rishi Sunak gets
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
The Conservative love affair with petty prohibitionism
How much time has been wasted on trivial legislation?
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)