The Arts
The state of the arts (w/ Pierre d’Alancaisez)
Can art still be essentially and not just instrumentally valuable?
No second coming for the arts
Labour will finish the Tories’ work of destroying the arts – only “better”
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Sheikhs on a train
Patronising foreign people, and other progressive trends
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
There’s no good way to equal pay
You can’t beat the laws of supply and demand