Not so easy listening
Janacek, Brahms, Bartok: Violin sonatas (Alpha-Classics/Outhere)
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Our ultimate moment
Outstanding art for troubled times
Inquest into the death of ENO
The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality
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
Not a relaunch
Is that a PLAN FOR CHANGE in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
What is behind the ECHR debate?
We should stop pretending that moral disagreements can be reduced to technical debates
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
How long can Ireland’s gender equality hold?
A gender divide in voting is not as clear as in other countries — but that could change
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
War crimes and Western double standards
How can politicians cheer the ICC pursuing Putin but not Netanyahu?
A rebel advance in Syria is nothing to cheer
You don’t have to sympathise with Assad to think that the alternative would be worse
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
