Great Lives
When Great Lives grates
Tales of lives lived well, or disgracefully, are always interesting, but what makes a good obit?
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
In defence of the right to addictions
Paternalists should stop masquerading as defenders of liberty
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Whole lotta Love
She makes your average rapper look like a Quaker
The rise of electoral sectarianism
Multiculturalism is reshaping British political life
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
What price justice?
Small disputes involving ordinary people are not a waste of the courts’ time
Sport, strength and pseudo-feminism
We should expose the emptiness of femininity compared to femaleness
The triumph of the Classical
Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture
Sweet vengeance could turn sour
Anti-Conservative right-wingers should be careful what they wish for
