Classical Music
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
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
Release the hounds
The best university sport? Beagling
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
The bastard son of democratic aestheticisation
How Donald Trump made populism funny
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
