Antonio Pappano
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
Fabian fry-up
After last night’s disco, a very hungover conference is ready for a hearty plate of social democracy
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
The restless life of a very bourgois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Gifted children
How does one wrap a bank transfer?
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Passing the baton to the offspring
Does maestro talent run in the genes?
