Broadway
Mood musical
An interesting new West End show about young millennials has echoes of far older classics
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Sinking giggling into the sea
The Conservatives were very amused with Rishi Sunak’s latest joke, even if no one else was
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
The central myth of Conservative centrism
The Conservatives are not suffering because they are too right-wing
Self-ID versus survivors
Traumatised women deserve to know that they can be supported by women
Schrödinger’s sex binary
We have to resist the mass gaslighting of women and girls
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
The problem with puberty blockers
Ministers must step in to prevent the NHS from experimenting on children
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
