Battersea Power Station
Powerless heritage
Battersea Power Station is an architectural waxwork
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
The great British giveaway
The handover of the Chagos Islands reflects a wider lack of realism in UK foreign policy
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
