Benjamin Britten
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
The soaraway success of scoops and smut
Tabloid sensibility wasn’t just about visual presentation, it was also about the way stories were written
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
BBC Verify’s Bangladesh blunder
In trying to combat misinformation, the BBC has spread its own
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female