Rock
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Bedtime reading for boomers
You will search in vain for a new life of any rocker who made his name after the advent of punk
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them
The Good Friday Agreement is in peril
24 years on the treaty may be on the verge of collapse
Publish and be cancelled
Unreadable and insufferable woke academics are boycotting the publishers that grudgingly print their inane work
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
Terrorism in prisons
A new report opens the lid on a growing problem
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Why demonise medical interventions for pregnancy?
We shouldn’t let nature get in the way of nurture
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels