Drawing from an uncomfortable position

‘Seating can be a problem with loud brass or percussion seated immediately behind. You want them to bugger off because they’re deafenin...

Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair... This problematic line from Milton's Lycidas comes to mind as I confront the hairscape. ...

Here are some Brexit campaigners with a hamper of tombola prizes designed to show Michel Barnier that the UK is primed to dominate world m...

The interval The poet Ruth Padel, allowed to study one of Beethoven's manuscripts, kissed it when the curator wasn't looking. Th...

As cover versions go, Verdi's Falstaff (libretto by Boito) has the edge on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor , knocked ou...

Checking proofs It's banging! More Hammers than the London Stadium! More gavels than you can shake a stick at! A relentlessly deta...

I'm with Elimu Carnival Band as they get ready in the Paddington Arts building. This is the first carnival after the death of Annie Curt...