Boulez celebrated but titans ignored
Two painful coincidences underline the imbalance of a presidential command
Sheer sensual pleasure
Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics)
Mahler done right
Gustav Mahler: 7th symphony (BR Klassik)
Hahn and Gál: Music out of time
Two composers who stuck to their musical roots as the world turned
Rouvali’s subtle genius
Santtu-Matias Rouvali delivers a masterclass in restraint and resonance in Shostakovich’s 6 and 9
Mahler’s pioneers
Walter Goehr and Willem Mengelberg revive Mahler’s genius
Busoni’s legacy
The best of him is found in the piano concerto
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Shining a light on the culture wars
Without the reintroduction of liberal ethical standards, the sacred purpose of academia cannot survive
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Britain needs a moral core
The UK’s greatest vulnerability isn’t its weakened military but its lack of spiritual depth
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages