Classical Music
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
Welcome to the unfrozen North
How Canada reinvented its musical prowess
Tapping into history
As soon as you enter Idagio.com you can kiss your working day goodbye
Scruton’s Danubian overtures
Sir Roger Scruton: A classical composer and inspiration to Hungarian students
High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
Schlock of the new
Those in charge are in thrall to vain provocateur directors
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Traditional rebels
Why music students are resisting the new teaching regime
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
The sordid truth about the 68ers?
Some claim the “anything goes” philosophy of the left-wing intelligentsia resulted in sex crimes
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
As flies to wanton boys
Gambling with human lives is just another day in the lives of the one per cent
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
