Paul Hindemith
Hindemith: Wind sonatas (Warner)
Paul Hindemith’s music is extremely well-made, intelligent, civilised, and moderately witty — so why has it all but vanished?
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Boris the Innocent
The Johnsonian lexicon has yet to incorporate the word “responsibility”
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Is Keir Starmer coming for Twitter?
A campaign group with close ties to Labour Party reportedly hopes to “kill Musk’s Twitter”
Perfect victims and a tale of two films
Don’t idealise victims — listen to them
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
In defence of hereditary peers
Starmer’s spiteful plan for the Lords breaks an important intergenerational contract
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
