Good conductors know how both to milk a silence, and to command an audience - particularly in a dramatic form like opera. The Messiah is quasi opera, and last weekend we had the orchestra of Opera No… (View Post)

JD Vance is a loon. "France and Britain have nuclear weapons. If they allow themselves to be overwhelmed with destructive moral ideas, then you allow nuclear weapons to fall in the hands of peop… (View Post)

Possibly. Webb has always been a Trump apologist, verging on fanboi; Robinson not so much. (View Post)

Yes. I've sung in the Armed Man a few times. (View Post)

It's rather more that the current version of the Tory party is ideologically illiberal, and pathologically anti-Europe. I don't think there's the huge attachment to Labour which you se… (View Post)