Culture
TB or not TB: the literature of consumption
No infectious disease has left its scars on the body of literature like tuberculosis
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste
How to be a literary editor
Done well, book reviews have never been more important
The joys of getting down with the grandkids
Campaigners for inter-generational justice miss the mark
The hypocrisy of cultural boycotts
Spare us the corporate virtue-signalling
Lates at the Tate
A propaganda film which attempts to define womanhood misses the mark
The lady vanishes
TV adaptations have masked the complexity and skill of Agatha Christie
Why modern novels are so boring
Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
Tacsi for a moribund language
Why condemn a million Welsh people to a parochial linguistic straitjacket?
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Grizelda Buncome
Peripatetic creative writing tutor
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
The king and the boss
Turkish President Erdoğan is no fan of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu — and vice versa
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Free speech for everyone, except …
We have to stop compromising our defence of free speech whenever it is convenient
Truss alone
Young Liz was accidentally left in charge of the country, only to be menaced by the worst sort of criminals: Tory MPs
