Yesterday evening, I was pleased to attend an event held to mark the publication of the new book by Melanie Phillips, which forms the basis of her feature in this month's magazine.
After the fiasco of Popstar to Operastar, the BBC is having a go at finding an opera star of the future. Dame Kiri leads the procedings and the winner gets to sing
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell There has not been, to say the least, a paucity of books about John Henry Newman, or of books which touch
Hugh Trevor Roper was the greatest historical stylist of the 20th century. Yet he never produced a masterpiece to rival that of his great hero and predecessor, Edward Gibbon