The Elite
On British chumocracy
Playing Six Degrees of Petronella Wyatt
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
The first victim of empire
England is an ongoing casualty of the British imperial project
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
An artist at the assizes
Cyril Hare was that rara avis: a circuit judge who could write like an angel
Keir-y-e-Liason
Rob tries to stay awake at the Liazzzzzzon committee
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The sorry strategy
Reparations are a deeply dangerous strategy in the carnivorous world of geopolitics
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
A bleak midwinter
For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed
