Classic Music
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?