The World at War
Half a century of the World at War
It was then the most expensive documentary ever made and, many think,the greatest
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Grossly offensive censorship
A new ruling offers hope for an end to preposterous rulings over “malicious communications”
Torygeddon
The Conservatives face an extinction level election, but there’s still time for some prehistoric bloodletting
Britain has an industrial strategy, but it’s bad
British politicians have made a fatal commitment to human quantitative easing
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
What became of Tchaikovsky?
Tchaikovsky: 5th symphony etc (ICA Classics)
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
