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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The SNP is in a Peter Murrell muddle
The Peter Murrell case has exposed the rot at the heart of the SNP’s political culture
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
The futility of right-wing cancel culture
Trying to get left-wing comedians fired for edgy jokes is stupid as well as wrong
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics