Classical
Schubert à la mould
Prize-winning pianism curdles into self-regard
Buildings are storytellers
Civic architecture should be more than functional
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
Vienna’s hapless missing link
Zemlinsky’s music is arresting and his ideas fertile and diverse, but he often goes unnoticed
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
Will London fall?
If the Greens take London, what might happen to policing?
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Moriori
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing