Alexei Stanchinsky
Alexei Stanchinsky: Piano works (Ondine)
Stanchinsky occupies a tonal territory midway between Rachmaninov and Scriabin; an amalgam of suppurating misery and crackpot visionary
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
