Album Review
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)
Baroque in a bad way
Vikingur Olafsson: Opus 109 (DG)
The start of something new
Kurt Weill: Love Life (Capriccio)
Music for troubled souls
NIGUN (SWR Music)
Transcending misery
Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies 1-5 (BIS)
Haba listen
Alois Haba: Complete piano music (Supraphon)
Prodigiously original
Alkan: Early works (Piano Classics)
Unjustly overlooked but somewhat undercooked
Elsa Barraine: 2 symphonies &c.(CPO)
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
UK defence readiness is indefensible
Silence is no longer an option — Britain’s Chief of the Defence Staff must resign
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
Squeezing out your generation
New laws are harming, not helping, younger people
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree
AI and the Jefferson Option
Eighteenth-century advice on surviving the AI apocalypse
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was