On Music
Last swipe at the Proms
Is it time to give a grudging nod of acknowledgement to the BBC Proms?
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
The concert hall of the future
A performance space without walls or limits
Unfinished? Don’t start!
A new project to restore Beethoven’s incomplete symphony borders on pathological necromancy
High-voltage Haitink recalled
Bernard Haitink, who died last month, was a conducting master
Britain is still safe for Jews
It may be far from perfect — but where would be safer?
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Open season
I’m trying to stick to wild game, venison and native beef— and monogamy too
Immigration enthusiasts and problematic polling
New analysis made British voters look far more pro-migration than they are
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
This is not where I live at all
Cynthia Erivo’s slighting of Sunderland was indicative of British arts establishment beholden to a homogenous, Americanised vision of culture
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
The war on noticing in modern Britain
How DEI initiatives and the worldview behind them dull people’s natural perceptiveness
