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Technical problems
Rishi Sunak must be glad to face one problem that is absolutely not his fault
The curse of super-councillors
MPs should not be focused on the local at the expense of the national
Will Reform conform?
Reform will become the Tories before replacing them
Three cheers for peers of mature years
Removing some of the wisest and most experienced voices in the House would be destructive and wrong
Anarchy in the UK
Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England
The slain in Spain, and Belfast again
This police drama tidies up loose ends just enough, but still leaves the viewers wanting more
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Black holes and revelations
Keir Starmer has detected a previously unknown budgetary singularity from whose gravity no tax cuts can escape
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
