Pantomime
Puss in boots
Prepare for winter with full panto footwear
Why drag is not the same as pantomime
In pantomime, we know that people are pretending
Thespians in the woods
Alexander Larman explains how pantomime went upmarket
Splashing the cash
On the complex relationship between art and money
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
The wrongs of Proudman
Criticism does not amount to discrimination or abuse
Midlands marvels and mysteries
A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties
