Make Mozart great again
Music that lifts the heart
Playing that pulls no punches
Kholodenko is in the elite of classical pianists
Defiantly playful
A composer worth discovering and rediscovering
Sibelius: Symphonies 3&5 (Alpha-Classics)
There’s a new burst of steam from the sauna
In search of the real Mahler
How Mahler’s music is about living in the moment
Major and minor talent
Rott’s influence, Mahler’s genius
The bore of the world
Give this one a miss
Schumann/Mahler: Symphonies 1&2 (Naxos)
Schumann cannot be ignored
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sixth Symphony (Hyperion/ICA Classics)
As shattering as any work of its era
Don’t shoot the pianists, protect them
Conductors should leave accompanying to the collaborative pianists
Democracy contra the majority
What does democracy mean if it is not related to the popular will?
A bitter pill
Women and girls are losing medical advice and safeguards in the name of “freedom”
The big bang
On the ecological repercussions and economic contributions of big shoots
Let the blood-letting begin
The Conservative Party must change radically if it is ever to gain power again
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
It’s time to transition babies
Even in the womb, many foetuses can sense their own trans identity
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Liberal gerontocracy and its discontents
Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Dr Whitehall
Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love the Blob
