Artillery Row
Valentin Silvestrov: 7th symphony (Naxos)
Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
You Know, Thingamabob
A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father
The legacy of Vanity Fair’s caricatures
Each cartoon had a story to tell about eminent figures in Victorian and Edwardian society
Inside university Marxist societies
One student’s escape from a campus cult
America’s Southern Gothic Moment
Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?
Letter from Washington: The perils of Flight 93 democracy
When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser
Frustrate their knavish tricks?
Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?
The politicisation of the police
British police officers are enforcing Stonewall’s wishlist
Is artistic nepotism an evil – or a necessity?
Nepotism in the arts is very much alive and here to stay