Orchestra
Why we need orchestras
China has grasped that an orchestra is more than a payroll of musicians
Has Trump killed the arts centre?
Scrap the arts centre and restore primacy to the people making art
We must resurrect the symphony
Or the orchestra will die with it
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
We are indebted to Otto Klemperer
On the extraordinary talent of a troubled composer
The vast plight of the Proms
The end of BBC Four is a death sentence for BBC Orchestras and the Proms alike
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Passing on the batons
The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America
Savour the silence
The first duty of a conductor is to imagine a world without noise
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Leading us a not- so-merry dance
Virtually every moment of physical theatre has to include some sort of balletic lunge
Racing in revolt
The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
On a wind and a prayer
Beggaring ourselves will not cool the rest of the planet’s weather
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
The regressive feminism of “angry young women”
Gen Z’s radical vanguard have built their worldview on unprogressive foundations