Zoltan Kodaly
Ligeti and Kodaly: Lux Aeterna (OUR Recordings)
The otherworldly and the down-to-earth
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Kemi Badenoch is a useful idiot
The former Secretary of State has a track record of advancing woke regulations
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke