Album Review
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)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
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
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Escape to the country
Some tractor-acceptance meditation might help with moving day
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence