Anyone but Balls (Part 3)
June 5, 2010
Indolence characterises the Labour leadership campaign. Well-meaning people wring their hands and say that the high bar potential candidates must leap before they can
Celebrating Fanny Hensel
June 4, 2010
The Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, not content just with having written the best biography there's ever been of Felix himself, has brought out
Classical CD Sales, Not
June 3, 2010
They're down again, according to Rupert Christiansen in today's Telegraph. As he points out, though, that doesn't mean nobody wants to listen to classical
Court Deprecates Misleading and Prejudicial Prosecutor
May 27, 2010
Judges at the International Criminal Court have expressed "the strongest disapproval" of a "misleading and inaccurate" media interview given by one of three deputies
Britain is in Rude Health
May 21, 2010
From Hogarth to Spitting Image, nothing defines our national identity better than comic art
Damned If They Do
May 21, 2010
Music is the perfect medium to deal with Goethe's Faust because of its focus on the human condition
Obama’s Fantasies
May 21, 2010
Barack Obama's utopian daydreams lack moral courage, and are a gift to his enemies