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
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Diversity is not our strength
The Khan Review reveals a society needlessly splintered along ethno-religious lines
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
AI has not killed the author
Advanced technology can enhance rather than replacing the pleasure of a good book
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
A “lost” novel better left unfound
We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
