Cello
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Cello Concerto (CPO)
If Norman Lebrecht goes a month without hearing Weinberg he feels the loss
Gender identity ideology is undermining healthcare
There is nothing “gender-affirming” about having cancer
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Eric Fogey
Dr Fogey genuinely does believe that virtually every enlightened measure of the past 200 years was a mistake
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
