Bargains
Balm for straitened times
Christopher Pincher offers some bargain whites for our tricky times
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
You can’t legislate away hatred
Don’t just do something, stand there
England’s forgotten football dystopia
The beautiful game is not fit to be a national religion
