Royal Albert Hall
Our “Nation’s Village Hall” turns 150
Anna Price tracks the emergence and endurance of Albertopolis, and how the Royal Albert Hall ties it all together
Last Night of the Proms – a storm in a teacup?
BBC Proms row has developed into an unexpectedly successful publicity stunt
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
The Lost Gardens of London
The war between city and greenery is eternal; the concrete and asphalt seeks open land to engulf
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
