Album of the Week
Schubert à la mould
Prize-winning pianism curdles into self-regard
An influential Irishman
John Field: Complete Nocturnes (DG)
Music of hypnotic power
Thomas Larcher: The Living Mountain (ECM New Series)
In the family
A rare contrast of composers
An epochal violinist
Eugene Ysaye: Solo violin sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Inconsistent glory
Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonies 2 and 3
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
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
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?
Angst, Nazis and forgotten treasure
Transcription / You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love / For the Love of Willie
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border