Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki: Credo (Hänssler Classics)
The climaxes are sensational, some of the strongest music Penderecki ever created; we may never see its like again
Lifetimes of self-isolation
Composing in seclusion
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
