Crufts
Ruff day at the NEC
Crufts is less about the dogs than it is their human owners
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
