Radio 3
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Wanted: patron of high culture
Someone save Radio 3
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
How the West fell out of love with mass migration
Restrictionist opinion is breaking through the establishment cordon sanitaire
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
