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
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
The new Scotland
Scottish culture is narrowing and secularising under the influence of a strident liberal elite
From Balfour to Sunak
Remembering a previous prime ministerial humiliation
Gove away
Sentimental tributes to the outgoing Tory overstate his political virtues
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
Is Georgia approaching its Euromaidan?
New attempts to curb the activities of NGOs have stirred pro-EU feeling
How Reform can reform itself
Reform can be major player — but it will take good sense and dedication
The Labour voter blues
At least forty per cent of Starmer’s voters are social conservatives. Will he take them with him, or leave them behind?
British broadcasting capitulation
Editorial standards have been thrown out, and anti-white discrimination embraced at the BBC
The Incredible Sulk
Nigel Farage is all about entertainment — not difficult questions