Ralph Vaughan Williams
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 5th symphony/Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Hyperion)
Symphonies to give you hope and vision
Britten, Hindemith, RVW, Martinu (Claves)
The 1934 suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams demands a sympathy for the rolling contours of the English countryside
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Explaining the Boriswave
How and why the Conservatives betrayed their voters on immigration
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
