Music
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
Children need education, not indoctrination
We need more debate on what children are being taught in RHSE
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
Revolution in the air
Andrea Chénier, Royal Opera House
Pissed Ofcom
An affront to the freedom of the press to do whatever it likes
The ghosts of Tory past
The Conservatives are haunted by the spirits of the last two decades
Free speech is a waste of breath
Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway
Of course the culture wars matter
It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously
Blame Boris for Britain’s borders
Boris Johnson is no lost Conservative hero — he did tremendous harm
The rise of academentia
Mere transgression is being elevated above genuine insight and creativity
Mad dogs and English football
Our memories of hooliganism deserve more nuance
Slaying gay culture
How trans activists took over the once worthy gay rights struggle
