Music
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
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Beef stew
Drake might be literally alive, but in terms of reputation, this was a murder
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
She wants to be in America
🎶 Airtime for me in America 🎶
Trump’s Bitcoin Boom
The UK should clarify its stance on the leading cryptocurrency sooner rather than later
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Rime of the ancient Tory mariner
The lesson of the Conservative conference? Keep your kids away from politics
How the Navy built Britain
Culmination of a magisterial work that entwines the story of the Royal Navy with the scientific, cultural and social history of our nation
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
