Critical Mash
Troublesome women
Rebellious heroines and unscrupulous heroes
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Synaesthesia
Robert Thicknesse, Lucy Lethbridge, and Yehuda Shapiro return for a mind bending and spirit expanding episode of Critical Mash
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
The Turner Prize’s identity crisis
The art establishment has revived competent drawing in spite of itself
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear
The dark horse of Durban
The work of Roy Campbell does not deserve to be ignored
When the Left thought free trade meant peace
Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Losing the crowd
In bullfighting, audiences can be as tough as animals
