Russell Beale
Russell Beale on song as Bach
How the paternal gorgon finally attracts our empathy, waging a last intellectual battle
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
This time the mission is the man
B-Day comes and a beachhead is secured
Reinvention and rediscoveries
An actress turned author, a Kafkaesque fantasy and a 1960s re-release stir the imagination
The monster that lurks within us
The enduring popularity of fantasy and horror fiction proves that we still live in the long, dark shadow of the Gothic novel
The call to serve
Rob Hutton – sketchy leadership for sketchy times
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
War of attrition
The conflict in Ukraine may yet end in stalemate
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Naughty noughties
History repeats itself in more ways than one
Irish irredentism?
You can’t back a “United Ireland” whilst condemning “Greater Hungary”
Lend them your years
Sunak has come not to bury Boris, but to praise him