It is hard if not impossible to express my sympathy for Neil Brown adequately having taken full note of his recent harrowing piece in these pages.

Not only did Neil temporarily flee the land of which Percy Grainger is putatively still the major composer in the hope of hearing and seeing Wagner’s sublime operatic cycle at Bayreuth but was met by the kind of idiot, ideological production which has strong, if thus far unobvious links to the findings of Douglas Murray’s excellent book The Strange Death of Europe.