Album of the Week
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
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Put the money back into politics
Business and politics rubbed along much better before restrictions were introduced
Why the OBR is wrong about Brexit
The OBR’s Brexit analysis is based on flawed comparisons and unreasonable predictions
The problem with public sector procurement
The Social Value Act has brought questionable benefits and serious costs
Get rid of Rishi
Sunak hanging on can only make things worse for the Conservatives and worse for Britain
Crowning glory?
The coronation came and went far too quickly
A sound of Rowling thunder
Scotland’s government and police seem determined to turn themselves into a laughing stock
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
