Classical Music
The death of a music shop
We shouldn’t accept the decline of the high street
A genius who could say “no”
The things Beethoven never did
Englishness with an aftertaste
The pleasures of cowpats
Passion and percussion
Two tastes of Chinese culture in London
An enemy of the best
Nothing routine, showy or ill-considered
A hundred shades of autumn leaves
He grips the attention with every phrase
A guaranteed crowd pleaser
Let the brass section blow cobwebbed memories to kingdom come
Rage captured to perfection
Chamber symphonies were a neglected genre revived during the Covid shutdowns
Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Crossing the public health Rubicon
Are there any limits to statist safetyism?
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
Action Tom
Can Tom Tugendhat MP resolve his vibes problem?
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
The self-destruction of the centrists
Chaos looms for the Conservative Party
