Music
Superficial pleasures
A te, Puccini (Signum)
The music of the Bard
A great tradition of Shakespearean songs have been all but forgotten
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)
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
No Kemi, liberalism hasn’t been hacked
Badenoch’s party brought us to this point. It was no accident
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
