BBC Radio
This was a bad start to the week
More work for the BBC pronunciation unit
Word pictures at a gallery
Paintings are appreciated best when there are few people around to spoil the view
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
The love that dare not speak its name
Classical music has been tarnished with the dread word “elitism”
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
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
Murders for June
Murders haunt the longest days as well as the shortest
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
The problem with Nigel Farage
The maverick Reform leader might be entertaining, but he is also unreliable
How ideology threatens to corrupt science
Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
The sincere insincerity of centrism
Politicians cannot but seem like they’re lying even when they genuinely aren’t lying
The future of higher education
How can universities be more efficient and effective?
Tough on smoking, tough on alternatives to smoking
We should give smokers healthier options, not no options
So many art fairs, so little time
On the forums that bring together dealer and buyer
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
