The peak of infatuation

Many of my friends are smitten by mountains.

It’s Jane Austen’s bicentenary

After a performance of the chamber opera Hell’s Angels, featuring nudity and profanity, a lady violinist left the theatre saying, “I think I’ll go home now to read some Jane Austen.”

“Words, words, mere words…”

…as Shakespeare wrote in “Troilus and Cressida”.

The right to higher education

Michael Gove’s thinking on higher education beggars belief. And not for the first time.

Celebrating Käthe Kollwitz

Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) is one of the most important female sculptors and printmakers of the 20th century.

Child abuse: Tackling collusion and silence

Abusers must be named, shamed, and punished. Only then will children be a little safer.

“Imprisoned in a cage of sound”

Sounds transcend time, evoking ages past.