The world’s greatest classical music festival?
This is democracy manifest
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Is our law praiseworthy?
In connection with civil liberties, British law is at its lowest ebb
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Let’s scrap the Table Tax
The state should stop using our cafes, pubs, and restaurants as a cash cow
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish