In the midst of a flurry of Schubert, a broadcast on Medici TV and the general celebratory noises emanating from the Wigmore Hall last week as they reach their 115th birthday, you could be forgiven for having missed something which (to this music researcher, anyway) is more exciting than all
‘We all want to research, to discover,’ Elliot continued, puffing lazily on his pipe. ‘When what we really ought to do is simply remind people. They seem to forget so much, so very quickly.’ No, it’s not a line from some extremely distinguished author. I wrote that. Maybe one day
The last few weeks have been a time of many people saying even more loudly than usual that the humanities are important to our society. Following Nicky Morgan’s insistence that STEM subjects were the best choice for students who wanted to keep their job options as broad as possible, critics,
This afternoon, as I struggled along the pavement outside Waterloo station, ducking and weaving between people who were simultaneously walking, texting, fiddling with their iPods, trying to read the paper and so on, I started thinking about how used we’ve all become to doing more than one thing at a
