Artillery Row
Searching for the funny notes
Dmitri Shostakovich: Premiere recordings (Naxos)
Managerialism is a threat to universities
New reforms could disempower individuals in the face of institutions
It is time to close the Nigerian surrogacy loophole
British couples can’t adopt babies from Nigeria, yet acquire them from Nigerian surrogate mothers
The meaning of Medomsley
An appalling case from recent British history should teach us sobering lessons about the nature of predation
The ravages of Putin’s war
Putin apologists should visit Ukraine and see what Russia has wrought
Rachel Reeves doesn’t understand basic economics
The Budget is based on ignorance as well as irresponsibility
The Budget’s attack on racing
Gambling, which funds racing, is likely to lose around £1.6 billion a year from 2027
A discipline in danger
Universities should not respond to funding crises by axeing the arts
The peace plans of Narnia
The world must not be conned into believing that Putin has the advantage
Spain cannot escape its own divisions
A dysfunctional political environment has been allowing old wounds to open
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show
An unpleasant man, and a genius
The most interesting people are not necessarily the most attractive
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands