Benjamin Britten
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
WNO’s curtain call?
Behind the ovations for Britten’s masterpiece looms the death of opera in Wales
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
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Cry sod Harry, England and St George
Why aren’t people proud to be English?
The slow vibe shift
Escaping our “post-cultural state” will not happen overnight
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The errata of history
Misprints are just one in a catalogue of literary disorders
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth