The Critics
Pomp and circumstance
A Venetian Coronation, The Gabrieli Consort, St John’s Smith Square
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Dinner in the Bloodlands
Belarus Free Theatre brings moral complexity to the table
Atticus updated
A new Mockingbird is masterful
Singing lessons
Spare us the social justice preaching
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Music monsters
The perverted predators of pop
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
Can Putin’s conductor redeem himself?
Gergiev’s road to redemption
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The name game
Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport
Irish anti-Israel agitation is out of control
Anti-Israel sentiments among Irish nationalists are irrational and opportunistic
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality