On Music
In search of the real Mahler
How Mahler’s music is about living in the moment
Don’t shoot the pianists, protect them
Conductors should leave accompanying to the collaborative pianists
Sharp dressed man
Nick Cave sounds as good as ever
The vast plight of the Proms
The end of BBC Four is a death sentence for BBC Orchestras and the Proms alike
Finnish on a high note
The biggest symphony orchestras are in need of music directors: but who’s in the running for the top spot?
Last swipe at the Proms
Is it time to give a grudging nod of acknowledgement to the BBC Proms?
Rolling back into town
The world’s greatest band return to Liverpool — do they still have it?
The eye of the storm
Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque, Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Some very healthy early music canaries
Helen Charlston & Toby Carr; Siglo de Oro (LFBM, St John’s, Smith Sq)
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity