Alexander Goehr
Mahler’s pioneers
Walter Goehr and Willem Mengelberg revive Mahler’s genius
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Let there be lightness
Black Comedy is best viewed as a breathtakingly accomplished technical exercise
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
In defence of lunchtime drinks
Hannah Spencer is being a tedious puritan
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
In defence of Gary Stevenson
If economists were only those with doctorates, we would have to ignore both the market’s wisdom and many of its most perceptive critics
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried
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
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company