High notes go wrong
Flying is a macho thing for musicians. It shows they are in demand and living the good life
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Play it both ways, Dmitry
This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him
Death of a polymath
The great British opera director Jonathan Miller has died aged 85. Here is one of his last interviews
Who’d want to be a critic?
Criticism has died at London’s newspaper
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Hard rain in Spain
Domestic scandal has rocketed back to the forefront of Spanish politics
Hurry hurry to Chop Chop
Gambling on Cantonese cuisine
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border