Album Review
Eighth Blackbird and Navarra String Quartet
I’m not giving up trying to persuade younger people to listen to new composers
Valentin Silvestrov: 7th symphony (Naxos)
Silvestrov writes almost as if Mahler is speaking to us from beyond the grave
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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
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
The flawed thinking behind state suicide
Kathleen Stock demonstrates the value of a philosopher’s analytical mind in a sharp critique of assisted suicide
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Fond portrait of an odd couple
Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
In defence of the Freedom of Information Act
We should not let our access to information held by public authorities be diminished
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create