Southbank
Requiem for London’s music
How London has lost its place as a classical music capital.
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
Equal opportunities fleecing
This blinkered trade’s endless thwarting of talented homosexuals has gone on too long
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
The W-word
The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
We must escape Subtopia
As Ian Nairn warned, British town planning has had a grim levelling effect on our urban and rural spaces
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
Toady of Whitehall
Open cruelty was met with equally shameless sycophancy
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
