Album Review
A much-misunderstood composer
The Cosmos of Paul Ben-Haim (CPO)
Album of the year?
György Kurtág: Játékok (Pentatone)
Jenufa’s body
Zlatomir Fung: Fantasies (Signum)/Stephen Sondheim: Chamber music (Bridge)
Royally good
The King’s Singers: Such stuff as dreams are made on (Signum)
Sheer sensual pleasure
Fatma Said: Lieder (Warner Classics)
Mahler done right
Gustav Mahler: 7th symphony (BR Klassik)
Hahn and Gál: Music out of time
Two composers who stuck to their musical roots as the world turned
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
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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
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
Leaving the ECHR would not make Britain like Russia
The case for opposing withdrawal is currently intellectually fatuous
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
The cost of equal outcomes
By treating disparities in mental health detention as evidence of racism, the NHS is sacrificing safety
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground