John Wycliffe
The Trans troubles of the Middle Ages
The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans
The University: The idea and how to destroy it
Fourteenth-century Oxford University offers today’s Woke some lessons in cancel culture
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
Private schools are a waste of money
Both Left and Right overstate their effect on educational ability and achievements in later life
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
Seeing the big picture
The most enduring historical work reveals eternal truths about the human condition
The Great Vladsby
Like Gatsby, Putin’s self-destructive nostalgia will be his undoing
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 / Moments Musicaux
A new release of Rachmaninov’s first piano sonata deserves more than five stars
War without end: Putin’s Syria model
The war in Ukraine shows tragic parallels to the earlier conflict
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
The King is our eternal everyman
Oak Apple Day celebrates the inevitable return of the primordial and the perennial
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities