Music
Don’t stop the music
Closures at Oxford Brookes are a sad reflection on the state of the academic music sector
In search of Graceland
Paul Simon’s journey to a gentle spirituality
Ban this vile “Hate” Parade
Puberty is a form of far-right terrorism
Why do we persist with Opera?
Dependent on state subsidies, artistically ossified and only a few go to see it
Against pop culture populism
The phoney courage of disdaining classical music
Farewell to the counterculture
Róisín Murphy’s cancellation is a tale of poachers turned ideological gamekeepers
Glastonburied (w/ David Butterfield)
Can we keep live music alive?
The ultimate collaborator
Sergio Tiempo: Hommage (Avanti)
The past speaks for itself
The problem with modern period drama
Remembering troublesome women
In death and in life
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
The miracle of the magical migrants
Is a man’s identity is fluid when he steps on British soil, but calcified on African soil?
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business