Fabergé eggs
Fabergé’s fabulous eggs
For decades, Carl Fabergé cast his spell over Russia and beyond
Stirring the melting pot
Ethnicity pay gap reporting is a terrible idea, so why won’t it go away?
A very modern monarch
Rakib’s Britain: The Queen has been a powerful force for unity in a rapidly changing and multicultural Britain
Another Elizabeth, a second Anne
In our secular age the Queen has been Anglicanism’s most compelling representative
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
In praise of women’s football
Don’t let the FA score an own goal by letting transwomen into women’s sports
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
Unearthly study of life and death
Yukio Mishima concealed his poignant political commentary in a run-of-the-mill science fiction novel
Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death