The Critics
Clearly raising the tone
What makes the perfect radio voice?
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
Sob stories
Real men have grit in their eye
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Centre for a vassal state
Why is a think tank dedicated to “Inclusive Trade” trying to tie the UK to EU imports?
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
