Johannes Brahms
Brahms: sublime genius on a major scale
Forget the sneering of Benjamin Britten, for whom Brahms’s music was “ugly and foul”, the German composer and pianist was a virtuoso talent whose best works burn with volcanic passion and seriousness of purpose
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society