Bernard Haitink
A penetrating performance
Shostakovich 15th symphony (BR-Klassik)
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It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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Two irascible, elderly artists and two beautiful younger women in unusual relationships
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
The state enablers of the Stade shooting
A fatal shooting in Germany illuminated more than one man
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
It’s time to see Brexit through
The next government must finally drag Britain out of the European Union’s tractor beam
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken