BBC Radio
Stop the Wark Coalition
BBC Radio has lost its purpose
I’m a Classic FM convert
Ignore the snobs, trip the light (music) fantastic and bask in the shameless joy of Classic FM
The faltering heart of the BBC
Amongst the dearth of decent BBC Radio content, “Start the Week” is outstanding
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
Being Boris
Johnson still expects Tory MPs to love him
Arise, Sir Wayne
The trickle of sporting knighthoods has now become a flood — who will be next?
How Blair won over Conservative Britain
Like Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair won big in enemy territory. Can Starmer do the same?
Should the police censor music?
Drill music presents itself as the soundtrack of liberation, but it’s dangerously mired in gang violence
The Curious Case of RS Archer
What is it about fake online identities that is so appealing?
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Do we really need so many stage adaptations of novels?
There’s much that can go wrong when the drama of a book is transferred to the stage
Happy Malvinas Day
Letters from the Falklands front: storming the embassy?