Cello
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)
If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss
The female body is the new short skirt
What is being done to some female bodies is changing what all female bodies mean
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
Down the primrose WPATH
Responsible medical authorities must reject the dangerous nonsense of gender-affirming care
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity
Pastorship and power
Church leaders should be vigilant against the abuse of authority
Dumbing down the priesthood
Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away
The first rule of Plot Club is…
The Tories are absolutely, definitely, certainly not scheming to replace Rishi Sunak
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests