Piers Hellawell
Music Of The Future Cannot Ignore The Past
Composers who try to create culture in a vacuum will struggle to be heard by a hostile public
Treating Composers as Researchers is Bonkers
Music’s artistic merit does not depend on academic criteria-as I know from experience
Last lines: Clive James
Fans of Clive James cherished his poetry as much as his other accomplishments. This is an excerpt from Ian Shircore’s new biography, “So Brightly at the Last”, the first full-length study of the man and his muse
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty