In today’s budget statement in Cardiff there was a derisory increase of £1.5 million for the Arts Council of Wales. That will barely cover the rise in coffee prices. The chorus of Welsh National Opera […]
The painter Jan Breugel the Elder died 400 years ago this week, on Jan 13, 1625, aged about 47. Son of Pieter Breugel, brother of Pieter Breugel the Younger, and father of, not surprisingly, Jan […]
Not Schubert’s best tune, perhaps, but one known to a significant proportion of the human race – with the exception of the bots employed by Youtube. The Google-owned video site has blocked a Samsung washing-maching […]