I'll think of something later

Deep in the late winter freeze, it's hard to believe that last Friday I and friend Cal were sitting outside warmed  by the sun at th...

Pausing in the middle of a demented schedule to bring you a topical shot by Simon Annand: the supernaturally brilliant Mark Rylance, who...

I've always loved Scotland's rainy city, though I know we students were in danger of romanticising it as a livelier alternative ...

Preparing the students on my City Lit BBC Symphony course for the orchestra's Total Immersion day of Japanese music, who better to ...

I hadn't intended to go to the third concert in John Adams's mini-residency with the London Symphony Orchestra, though I'd c...

Heading his manuscript copy of The Dream of Gerontius , Elgar quotes John Florio’s translation of Virgil via Montaigne:   ‘Whence so dyr...

No doubt those Little Britainers who want to batten down the hatches against Europe will be using ‘Nimrod’ or Pomp and Circumstance yet...

Unthinkable, isn’t it? And yet that would certainly have happened if the Islamist extremists, having taken Konna the other Thursday, had...