Artillery Row

An essential record

Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia

Cancel HBO

HBO Max’s cancelling of Gone With the Wind in the wake of George Floyd’s murder is outrageous, Paul du Quenoy writes

Saved for posterity

John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann

Into the lion’s mouth

Nigel Jones laments the rise of the British snitch

‘You’ll be a Man, my son!’

Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain

Letter from Washington: Albert Murray and the case for complexity

A dissenting opinion in a revolutionary moment

Physicist could be fired over ‘All Lives Matter’ tweet

Laser scientist with US Defence contract is the latest victim of the culture war

Assaulting statues

The history of iconoclasm offers deeper lessons than are on display in the current statue-toppling craze

Where do we stand with the twentieth century?

Have our perceptions on the course, themes and events of the 20thC changed? With Professor Jeremy Black

Art Attack

Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?