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Nikolai Kapustin, Alfred Schnittke: Cello Concertos (Capriccio)
I can imagine Kapustin in the background, smiling at his piano, during this breath-taking revival
Why do women matter so little?
The outrageous policing of political speech by Wiltshire Police
Social media giants are platforms, not publishers
Conservatives who dislike Twitter’s politics shouldn’t make things worse
Keep your luxury hotels
It’s the cheap and cheerful taverns that offer a home for any traveller
Flight COVID-19 is now boarding
The grimness of my flight to Delhi bespoke the special cruelty of this crisis
So long, Jackson Carlaw
The Scottish Tories prove they are ruthless, after all. What are the conspirators’ plotting?
Letter from Washington: Democratic delays and fragile freedoms
Trump’s tweet, Lewis’s lesson and Obama’s wish list
Had cake, ate cake
Why Boris won’t allow other people to enjoy the things he has
Does the Mediterranean have a common culture?
And did its modern tourist industry develop naturally? Graham Stewart discusses with Professor Jeremy Black
North America’s most ethically challenged leader
Will the WE scandal make Justin Trudeau’s halo fall off soon?
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Wagner: the long and short of it
Creativity consists in destruction, in turning the composer inside-out, in making fun of him.
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
Weren’t the grownups meant to be back in charge?
Shallow managerialism has failed us already
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Dancing with Beethoven
Beethoven: String Quartets, vol.2 (Chandos)
