Music
Revel in Runyon
A classic gem with extra polish
Words and music
The bookish thrill of recognising the literary references of the pop artists you love
The quietest guest of all
The clavichord makes up for a lack of grandeur with extraordinary expressiveness
Snaps, crackles and Pop Art
Things you didn’t know you were interested in — until someone wrote a good book about them
We can’t Retvrn to tradition
Sorry, trads and tradwives, modvrnity is here to stay
Once more with Gustavo
“Orchestra makes right call” shock!
Betjeman the beat poet
Recalling a thrilling collaboration between the poet and a group of oddball musicians
Honky-tonking around
Yuja Wang: The American Album (DG)
Excellence for everyone
What does the BBC have against classical music?
A welter of emotions
Rachmaninov: 2nd symphony (Chandos/Vox)
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
An open letter against assisted dying
118 academics oppose the Leadbeater Bill
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
There is no “Woke Right”
A new attempt to delineate the boundaries of acceptable opinion has failed
Why young men like Donald Trump
He cuts through the sterility and severity of modern life
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
