Album Review
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Joyous genre-bending
Milestones (Signum Classics)
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Talent and temptation
William Walton: Two symphonies
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Standout singers
If Music (Erato), Day of These Days (Delphian) & Eisnacht (Genuin)
Alkan the Awesome
Alkan: Complete organ works, vol. 1 (Signum Classics)
A cherishable dream
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Hyperion)
Schubert à la mould
Prize-winning pianism curdles into self-regard
Small chips off an old block
Soulima Stravinsky (Nimbus)
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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
Beyond the binge
Let’s try subtlety
A rare interview proved a delight
Eavesdropping on two intelligent people sharing a civilised conversation about interesting things
Why are doctors special?
Doctors have a lot less to complain about than other workers
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
Deciphering the royal dress code
Fashion, in royal hands, became a form of branding
Louis Through
The left-leaning media has lost its moral and institutional authority
The praises of a neglected vegetable
Summer calls for cold cucumbers
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it