Lebrecht’s Album of the Week
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Hope and stories
Bicinia (Claves)
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Britain will be worse without hereditary peers
The expulsion of the hereditaries is neither fair nor pragmatic
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
The ends of Pan-Africanism
An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules