Italian Culture
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Puckish polymath
Italo Calvino’s imagination spanned the cosmos but his concerns were very human
Are Jewish students really afraid of the Freedom of Speech Act?
Some of have raised concerns, yes, but generalisations are wrong and unhelpful
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
