George Frideric Handel
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Wildest dreamland
It’s the perfect medium for the End Times, unequalled in its devotion to doom
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Shattered illusions
The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Which country?
Our rural landscape is much misunderstood
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
