Alexei Lyubimov
Defying categorisation
Valentin Silvestrov: “… flowering over Lethe…” (ECM); Violin concerto (Naxos)
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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
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
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.
Reform’s man in Makerfield
An interview with Rob Kenyon about online controversies and national priorities
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Who will pound longest?
America has military might — but does it have the appetite for war?
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
A Laboured response
Keir Starmer and his advocates are all out of ideas
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Giles Treadwell
Old-style literary agent