How short is an arm in the arts?
ACE’s politicisation goes back all the way to the Blair government
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
Being economical with the truth
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life). By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
Exeter — portrait of a modern university
Jeremy Black, historian of Exeter University, reflects on the shifting demands and priorities on campus.
The stultification of the liberal mind
Ed Davey’s anti-political campaign is darker than it looks
Save yourselves
We should not underestimate the deep seriousness of sex
There is no human right to assisted suicide
Lady Hale is wrong about the existing laws
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
The end of high quality homes
Michael Gove’s new leasehold reforms risk derailing the economic engine that helped finance some of Britain’s finest suburbs
Walk tall in these shoes
If you buy the best kit, it will last much longer
Equality for some
Labour’s is continuing a misguided approach to DEI
What Trump gets right about NATO
There needs to be a shifting in the balance of responsibility from America to Europe
