Album of the Year
Album of the year
The best of an inspiringly musical 2023
Outwards and inwards
Drawing the ear into every era of western music
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
