Heidi Crowter
Discrimination in the womb
Neither Heidi Crowter nor her husband feel Down’s Syndrome means their lives are not worth living
Beethoven: Nine symphonies+ (Decca)
This Beethoven gift set is not for Christmas. It is for life
A working class hero?
Luke Littler should be allowed to be himself and not a culture war lightning rod
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Britain is draining vulnerable health systems
Short-termist immigration policies are also damaging foreign nations
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)