Albums
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Ireland’s forgotten wine history
Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Let’s leave the Commonwealth
There is no point in being a member just to be browbeaten about our past
Brutalist beauties
These monstrosities were imposed on the population, not desired
