Musical directors
The jackpot of opera
The Rhinegold, English National Opera, Coliseum
No direction from directors
Music directors who fail to provide any direction in times of crisis
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Procedural Man
The Process is good, the Process is correct, no matter what, trust the Process
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Why Twitter needs the libs
Strange as it sounds, we will miss them if they go
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
