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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Hey, leftists, leave independent schools alone
The campaign against independent schools is irrational, short-sighted and destructive
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Boriswave denialism
Britain’s ruling class has used dependence on cheap labour as an economic strategy, and cannot see any other option
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
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
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust