On Music
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Childhood reclaimed
Mobile phones have been constraining our kids’ imaginations — but it does not have to be this way
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Reform the police, don’t deform the police
The Met Police’s Gangs Matrix might have been flawed but it served an important purpose
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
