Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty

Apologies are the end, going is the start

Urban planning should depend on local residents more than abstract debates

A controversial new book argues that gender-critical feminism is bigger than the trans debate

Both judges and politicians must respect long-standing constitutional conventions

The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?

Why doesn’t British legislation protect free speech?

Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality

What the backlash against women-only spaces reveals about rape, trauma and prejudice

How the left internalised the misogyny of the modern state