Antonio Pappano
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
Good for the sole
April calls for a recipe that combines the incoming and departing treats
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Soothing sounds in time of war
There are expectations going back to 1948 that musicians turn up to provide relief
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Sherlock Holmes and the BBC bias
Eamonn Holmes will get to the bottom of the mystery of what happened to his career
Campus confidential
Inside the secret Cambridge societies hiding their unfashionable views
It’s not rocket science
It all goes wrong when arts departments start imitating research universities
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
