Sohrab Ahmari
The wisdom of the old traditions
The Unbroken Thread is an engaging and entertaining read — but it feels like a project that’s only just beginning
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Rooster booster
Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it
Don’t mock the Med mindset
What the Spanish have lost in international relevance, they make up in appreciating life
The decline of madness
The colourful history of the Tavistock Clinic
The Gen X delusion
They like to play the cynic, but Gen X built the modern world and got rich doing it
Borisdammerung
Boris sings one last sad song before he mounts his pyre
Unhappy pilgrimage
The Church is on the move as Christians are “strategically driven” from their homes
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Gangsters by the Gulf
Dubai and the rise of organised crime
Anyone for Woolton pie?
Enduring a taste of the Blitz spirit at a chain restaurant with no butter, no jam and few staff
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history