Conductor
Passing on the batons
The future of conducting is looking bright — everywhere except in Russia and America
And the band played on…
The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
The Meloni effect
How the Italian prime minister could reshape European politics
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
