Features

The true lie of the land

Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice

The love that dare not speak its name

Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”

Singers have a voice, too

Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex

Finding the middle ground

Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?

God save The Kinks

How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?

And the band played on

Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?

W.S. Gilbert

A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England

Putting a gloss on big ideas

On the outsize influence of small magazines

Keystones of Britain’s history

Far too many young people are woefully ignorant of the splendour and meaning of our rich ecclesiastical architecture

Let there be love

Filmmakers have fallen out of love with romantic movies, but it’s time to bring back passion to the picture house