Album
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)
Stories worth telling
Untold Stories (Hyperion)
A Soviet revelation
David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition (58CDs, 3DVDs)
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
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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
Can the army survive migration?
As Western militaries struggle to recruit young people, Britain may be turning to a familiar solution: immigration
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Selling the commons
How Britain put a price on nature
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Middle management in the Middle East
The war against Iran has emphasised the importance of deep leadership