Album Review
Lady Gaga’s new album is a blast
Until now, she’s never been as much fun as she was in the noughties
The sweet sounds of catastrophe
Shostakovich/Britten: Cello works (Decca)
An Easter surprise
Songs from Japan and Europe (TYXart)
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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Facing demons
On the highs and lows of demonic infestation
The Middle Kingdom and the middle powers
China’s clash with Western power shattered its civilisational self-image. Europe is heading for a similar reckoning
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
A scarcity machine
Why Peckham residents should not celebrate development being blocked