Bamiyan Buddhas
Assaulting statues
The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
In defence of GB News
Demands for the channel to be silenced amount to snobbery and opportunism
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
Plain Janeites
For all their admirable dedication, keepers of the Austen flame cannot be so protective