Gloomy days inspire us to play that funky music
In the summertime, when the weather is fine, we Brits switch over to less “bouncy” and…
Royalties are music to ears of performers
Royalties paid to songwriters, composers and music publishers last year exceeded half a billion pounds for…
Music king who made Blondie but turned down Bowie
What will Chris Wright do second time around with Chrysalis, the music house he co-founded in…
Andrew Lloyd Webber: “The British still think: ‘We don’t do musicals’”
Andrew Lloyd Webber has a record four musicals running simultaneously on Broadway. So why doesn’t he…
Denominational education is not to blame
Separate schooling doesn’t fuel sectarianism or terrorism; it is tribalism, based on football, race or religion,…
Swinney criticised for delaying ‘mission’ of education reform
New legislation designed to help deliver Nicola Sturgeon’s “defining mission” of driving up standards in Scottish…
UK to use Chinese maths books
First it was the teaching, now it is the text books. A “historic” deal between HarperCollins…
Stay there: we’ll bring UK education to China
Online company hopes to exploit the Chinese demand for a British education, writes Gabriella Swerling
Bana the child blogger saved from siege of Aleppo
Bana al-Abed, the Syrian seven-year-old whose Twitter account became a symbol of the siege of Aleppo,…
World’s ‘biggest blogger’ gets sporty
Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, arguably the world’s most successful blogger, is excited.