Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Composed and electrifying
Klaus Tennstedt: The Radio Broadcasts (Doremi, 4CDs)
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)
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
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)
£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
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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
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
The memory wars
Poland and Ukraine must find some way to stop falling out over history
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Save our green and pleasant land
It’s time to stop ruining Britain’s countryside with drab, identikit houses and instead build real places with focus, heart and purpose
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
A king’s ramsons
Look after the woods, and they will continue to give
How the Civil Service was the ruin of Keir Starmer
A weak and indecisive prime minister delegated too much to Whitehall
NigeDosh: an urgent appeal
Tonight’s political coverage is repeatedly interrupted by urgent appeals for charities that may or may not be fictional