social realism
The geopolitical prescience of Handel
On opera’s flirtation with current affairs
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
Remember the Armenians
The West has turned its back on the world’s oldest Christian state
Big town life
Force for progress, loyalist fortress, or den of iniquity — the English town has been all of these, and more
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
Pathetic fallacy? Pathetic government
Sunak’s sad announcement was miserably symbolic of Conservative failure
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
The problem with prescriptions
Concerns about over-prescription should not be trivialised or problematised
Don’t judge a play by its label
The instinct towards appeasing “sensitivity” would stifle the creative impulse