Music
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
A tale of two Glastos
With ho-hum bands, faux-eco fans and sky-high prices, Glastonbury Festival has strayed far from its countercultural roots
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
It’s not bullying, it’s criticism
Artists don’t have to be shielded from critics
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
The crisis at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre
Serious as it is, it is no anomaly
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Cynical in Venezuela
The corruption and incompetence of its political system seeps into the soul
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Royals in an online age
Can the royal mystique survive the glare of modern media?
