Album Review
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Franco-Irish vigour
Augusta Holmès: Symphonic poems (CPO)
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Piano in wartime
War poems (Somm)
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
Great big rain showers
C Schumann/Grieg: Piano concertos (Signum)
The Bar should say “bye” to EDI
Barristers should not have to follow ever more extensive equality standards
Still-sparkling gems of an annus mirabilis
Tried and tested novels overlooked in our neophilic rush to the new and wanting
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Setting ourselves on fire
Multiculturalism has created fractured communities where nobody cares
The Conservatives must learn from their failures
Our failure was predictable and must not be repeated
The student politics of Clive Lewis
All he sees are good guys and bad guys
JD Vance’s tech policy is a MAGA microcosm
Does JD Vance hope to restore the Jeffersonian tradition of freedom?
