Album Review
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)
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
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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
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson
Nonsense and neurodivergence
The Church of England is confusing irrationality with inclusivity
Eat less chicken
Industrial farming is bad for the environment but it is also cruel
Remembering 2020
It is important to remember what an irrational and hostile time it was
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Defending liberalism from its defenders
Liberalism should mean anything but a more interventionist state
The disunited kingdom
The establishment must confront the disturbing realities of sectarian politics in the UK
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
The fire in him
Gary Oldman is superb in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Royal Court