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
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
