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
The power of the pageant
Our enchanted, sometimes absurd, monarchy is one of the last focuses of common cultural experience
The tide has turned on abortion
The overturning of Roe v Wade is an opportunity for the UK to reflect on its own abortion laws
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
Justice for a patriot
Too many heroes like Henry Wilson have been neglected
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Why nuclear abolition should fail
The harsh reality is that the nuclear revolution is irreversible and makes major wars significantly less likely
Children’s mental health crisis
Using our kids to virtue signal adult politics fuels anxiety and depression
Michaela’s unspeakable truths
“Progressive” teaching methods ruin lives to make middle class people feel good about themselves
Johnson’s disrespect for the law
The PM repeatedly showed a cavalier attitude towards constitutional conventions
Fiscal fibs
Beware Tories promising tax cuts
The post-liberal trap
The new communitarianism looks suspiciously like what we have already