Album
An Easter surprise
Songs from Japan and Europe (TYXart)
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)
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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
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
Keeping us on message
The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Critical briefing: home ownership headaches
Why more homes are not always good news for the ordinary buyer
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away