Russian Culture
An austere opera
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
The sweet sounds of catastrophe
Shostakovich/Britten: Cello works (Decca)
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
A magnificent navy on land
The state of the British Armed Forces triumphantly vindicates Parkinson’s Law
Why tradition, not utopia, protects expression
Free expression thrives on human frailty, debate, and tradition — not on utopian zeal or moral legislation
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Britain must not liberalise surrogacy laws
We are already endangering women and girls
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom