Pandemic Fiction
The coronavirus variations
Here are three of our most praised writers with new offerings written during one or more lockdowns and that also take in the pandemic in their subject matter
A successful account of the disastrous
When the Dust Settles is a record of an achingly human response to chaos and emergency
Wagner rides again
A return to enchanted tradition in Siegfried at Longborough Festival Opera
Charge of the Lightweight Brigade
Into the valley of death rode the 358
Wakefield and the revival of Labour Britain
After an electoral disaster in the 1930s, Wakefield kickstarted the new Labour era. Can it do the same for Starmer?
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Accusations of transphobia are pure misdirection
Barrister Robin Moira White has falsely accused the AEA of “transphobia” for defending women’s rights
The original, best and shortest English opera
John Blow, Venus and Adonis; Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas (HGO)
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
Studio: The “Fallas” of Valencia
Fierce rivalries in a shared sport
Herbert Butterfield: A prophet for our age?
The Whig interpretation of history explains much that is malignant in modern progressivism