György Ligeti
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
Scotland’s cold and durable fire
John Swinney is proving that in politics what matters most is simply showing up
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal