Indie music
The unusual, the unsigned, the uncategorisable
Hip-hop has its place, but not necessarily on an alternative daytime radio station
Laid-back Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Württemburg sonatas (ECM)
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
For whom the road tolls
Did turnpike roads transform travel in the 18th century? Or were they a means for rent-seeking?
Why Reform is rubbish
Its top-heavy structure and patchy talent mean it cannot seize a massive opportunity
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
The meaningless models of “public health”
Another brick in the “public health” fortress of unreality
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
First impressions
The first Impressionist exhibition was no obscure bit of posturing, but artistic sedition
Ukraine can still triumph
It needs, and deserves, Western patience and solidarity