Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber works (BIS)
The British composer — still writing at 87 years of age — is an acquired taste
Beethoven, Birtwistle: A bag of bagatelles (Wergo)
Those who listen to music with an open mind are going to have a ball with this
The failure of the Irish nerve
Politicians are not acting and the public are not forcing them to act
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
