Greta
Heil Greta
It’s time for Greta-worshippers to subject her claims to the same scrutiny as other major political figures
She’s not the messiah…
Watching Greta Thunberg and the hysterical devotion she arouses, I am reminded of Judaism’s best-known self-styled redeemer
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
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Anti-industrial strategy
Manufacturing has been systematically devastated by successive governments