Music
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
A full musical meal
An unforgettable concert experience
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
Why does the establishment want to harm farms?
The Government expects farmers to act as environmental agents of the state
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
