Alexander Goehr
Mahler’s pioneers
Walter Goehr and Willem Mengelberg revive Mahler’s genius
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat
Labour’s tobacco crackdown will fuel crime, hurt retailers, and push smokers towards worse habits
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Peston’s inbox
It’s all nonsense, and none of it happened, and I can’t remember it, and it’s not what it looks like
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Why Ed Miliband can’t change course
He would have to abandon his self-appointed role as an agent of progress
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
What is anger for?
If young women are going to be radical, they need to make it worth it
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature