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
Do Conservative front runners always lose?
It’s always hard to tell who’ll win and who’ll be sent to the glue factory
Women aren’t “womb-carriers”
How the left internalised the misogyny of the modern state
The Facebook police
New policing guidelines are wholly ineffective
The comedy of inclusive disrespect
Laughter can unite us
An unfinished masterpiece
One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces
Did Newton microaggress?
The government should stop supporting the EDI industry
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
A very modern monarch
Rakib’s Britain: The Queen has been a powerful force for unity in a rapidly changing and multicultural Britain
Oh, the humanities
Not your average masturbatory scholarship
Rushdie and the extremist threat
Rakib’s Britain: Theocratic ideologies must be challenged
Maya Forstater’s victory
Maya’s vindication in court is a triumph for all women